What term is used to describe the common practice of letting stressful thoughts run through your mind, over and over?
a. despair
b. negative reasoning
c. rumination
d. rationalization
Answer: C: rumination
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a. 25% b. 50% c. 75% d. 90%
The Implicit Association Test (IAT) developed by Greenwald measures ingroup-outgroup bias by
a. asking individuals to report their attitudes toward fictitious groups. b. watching individuals as they interact with the members of other groups. c. measuring the tendency to associate the ingroup with positive concepts and the outgroup with negative ones. d. measuring heart rate and blood pressure when shown images of the outgroup. e. using fMRI methods that chart the activation of positive and negative areas of the brain.
According to the text, carry-over effects are best controlled by:
A) reducing the number of conditions B) making experimental tasks as brief as possible C) varying the order of presentation of conditions D) avoiding tasks that interfere with performance on a subsequent task
To what extent do people with symptoms of sexually transmitted infections or psychological disorders seek treatment for their conditions?
a) Most people with symptoms of these types of problems never seek treatment. b) Only about half the people with symptoms of these types of conditions ultimately seek treatment. c) About two-thirds of the people with symptoms of these types of conditions eventually seek treatment. d) The vast majority of the people with symptoms of these types of conditions eventually seek treatment.