Emile just ditched a friend at a party to spend time with a pretty woman. Emile feels uncomfortable but he tells himself it's because the woman is so hot and not because he treated his friend badly
The way he's feeling is dissonance, but he tells himself it's sexual attraction. This describes which of the following?
a. self-affirmation
b. self-esteem
c. misattribution of arousal
d. priming
Answer: A
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a. "I should have never gone into that neighborhood alone, especially not with my fancy car. It's clear why this happened. I made myself an obvious target." b. "The event was totally random. It could have happened to anyone, at any time, in any place." c. "Why was I attacked? Why me? Why now? What did I do to deserve this?" d. "The world is just an unpredictable, dangerous place. I just need to accept that and move on."
Which is the graph of data for continuous variables where each value is graphed as a point and the points are connected to show differences between scores.
A. line graph B. pie chart C. bar graph D. scatterplot
Which is true of sexual media?
a. Sex and romance are rarely written about in magazines read by teenage girls. b. More than 60 percent of 16- to 17-year-olds regularly view sexually explicit content online. c. Between 44 and 81 percent of music videos involve sexual content. d. About 40 percent of the top 20 shows popular with adolescents average nearly seven scenes of sexual content per hour.
_________ plays a role in the development of criminal behavior
a. Failure to successfully reach the genital stage of development b. Failure to resolve the Oedipal complex c. Inability to delay gratification d. Conflict between the pleasure and reality principles