In a study where college women were asked to quickly count backwards by seventeens, from a number in the thousands, their heart rate and blood pressure increased. What "factor" cut the stress response of the women in half?
a. the image of an attractive male
b. a new romantic relationship
c. the presence of a friend
d. a romantic love song playing in the background
ANS: C
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a. Amniocentesis b. Ultrasound c. Chorionic villus sampling d. Laparoscopy
One day you overhear two scientists talking. “I study adult attachment style,” one of them says. What does he or she study, specifically?
a) People’s tendency to anxiously anticipate, readily perceive, and overreact to rejection from relationship partners b) People’s characteristic beliefs, attitudes, and expectations about the self as worthy or unworthy of love, other people as available or unavailable, and relationships as rewarding or punishing c) People’s beliefs, values, and expectations about love and the nature of romantic relationships d) People’s assumptions about the relationship experiences of others
Trust, commitment, intimacy, self- confidence, and a willingness to self-disclose are all characteristics of ________ attachment.
A. secure B. disorganized C. avoidant D. anxious E. discordant
Which of the following methods of sampling was used in Project SIGMA to contact the hard-to-reach category of gay men?
A. random sampling B. convenience sampling C. snowball sampling D. judgment sampling