When you tell a prospective employer that you are a high-achiever, gregarious, and occasionally brilliant, you are describing your

Ravenna's bones have become brittle, fragile, and thin. What diagnosis is her physician likely to make?

A. osteoporosis B. presbyopia C. melancholia D. echolalia

Do any personality traits correlate significantly with job success?

a. No, none of them correlates significantly for more than a few jobs. b. Agreeableness and conscientiousness correlate significantly for a wide variety of jobs. c. Openness to experience correlates significantly for a wide variety of jobs. d. Extreme extraversion is a powerful predictor of success on almost any job.

If retrieval cues are missing when you are trying to remember an event, you will most likely experience

a. retroactive interference. b. cue-dependent forgetting. c. proactive interference. d. suppression.

When Melissa's husband tells her it bothers him that she goes out to dinner with her previous boyfriends without him, she deflects his complaint and presents herself as the victim. She says that he must not trust her and points out how painful it is to not be trusted. She uses this pattern a lot when her husband tries to express a concern. Melissa is engaged in which type of negative behavior?

a. Criticism b. Stonewalling c. Contempt d. Defensiveness