What can we conclude about gender differences in what men and women talk about?
a. Women gossip to a much greater extent than men.
b. No gender differences can be found in conversational topics.
c. In general, the similarities in conversational topics are greater than the differences.
d. Men are much more likely to talk about work, whereas women are much more likely to talk about other women.
C
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a. They used questions that people with schizophrenia answered differently from others. b. They used questions that pertained to the major theoretical views of schizophrenia. c. They took statements by patients with schizophrenia and made them into questions. d. They chose statements that caused conflicting activity in more than one brain area.
The theory that being with others will produce social facilitation effects only when those others take one's attention away from the task at hand is known as the
a. mere presence theory. b. evaluation apprehension theory. c. distraction-conflict theory. d. the trans active memory hypothesis.
Four-year-old Gregory learned to read in preschool, despite much struggle. Although his preschool considered him successful,
his teacher in the developmental kindergarten he attended suspected that he had not been allowed enough time to play while in preschool. Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Research examining brain region responses to high arousal stimuli shows that individuals high in sensation-seeking tend to show more activation in brain regions associated with ____
a. ?self-monitoring b. ?reward c. ?emotion d. ?attention