Sasha is a Ph.D. candidate in social psychology. She is researching the role that a good sense of humor plays in securing a mate and is planning on honing this research into a dissertation that focuses on humor's influence on reproductive success
. Sasha is engaged in the study of ________. a) replicability.
b) evolutionary psychology
c) environmental variables
d) gender differences
b
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Polivy, Herman and Warsh (1978) compared the ______ responsiveness of dieters and non-dieters in a sample of male college students. Dieters were found to be more extreme ______ responders. When an internal source of arousal (i.e., caffeine) was provided, non-dieters became more ______ and dieters became less ______.
A. cognitive B. motivational C. emotional D. social
A child with high effortful control is able to maintain focus and is less distractible
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
A statistic is defined as _________
a. the score on the dependent variable of a particular subject in the sample b. a number calculated on population data that quantifies a characteristic of the population c. a number calculated on sample data that quantifies a characteristic of the sample d. the number of subjects in the sample
Segmenting consumers on the basis of their most important attribute or attributes is called _____.
A) benefit segmentation B) demographic segmentation C) psychographic segmentation D) attribute segmentation E) utilitarian segmentation