Economist Sam Peltzman showed how risk compensation works: people tend to act more _____today if they feel that they are safer than yesterday.

A. safely
B. conservatively
C. cautiously
D. dangerously


Ans: D

Psychology

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The mind and body are seen as inherently connected in ______.

A. the biomedical model of health, but not the biopsychosocial model B. the biopsychosocial model of health, but not the biomedical model C. neither the biomedical nor the biopsychosocial model of health D. both the biomedical and the biopsychosocial models of health

Psychology

Five-year-old Jaycee learned her "ABCs" by repeating them over and over again. Jaycee learned the alphabet through

a. rote learning. b. insight learning. c. classical conditioning. d. respondent conditioning.

Psychology

______________ can provide a more dynamic source of information about the candidate than standard testing measures, with social factors, such as the degree of similarity of the applicant to the interviewer, influencing the outcome.

a. Interviews b. Personality assessments c. Observations d. Surveys

Psychology

Social desirability bias is defined as

A) the desire to be involved in social psychological research. B) a tendency of research participants to say what they believe is appropriate. C) the bias of a researcher to only report results that are consistent with his or her hypothesis. D) a sample that does not accurately reflect the composition of the population.

Psychology