Mental retardation is defined as
A. below-average intellectual ability
B. below-average intellectual ability and adaptive functioning
C. significant deficits in self-care abilities
D. low IQ scores
B. below-average intellectual ability and adaptive functioning
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Several background factors have been observed repeatedly among people who engage in atypical sexual behaviors, including
a. lack of early church- or school-based sex education. b. early failures at intimate relationships. c. lack of a consistent parenting environment. d. high self-esteem.
Amy is frustrated with her teenage son's recent behavior. "Why did you do that?" she asks him, with exasperation. According to research by Nisbett and Wilson (1977), Amy's son will
a. be unable to accurately identify why he acted as he did. b. become penitent in the face of his mother's anger. c. be able to answer his mother's question honestly and accurately. d. become aggressive toward his mother's confrontation.
Kelly presented a "man as scientist" conception of human personality, meaning that
A. no scientist can understand a person better than that person understands himself or herself. B. the human personality can be examined through scientific methods. C. people constantly try to predict and control the events in their lives. D. the best way to obtain answers to our questions about human personality is to examine a single individual in depth.
The facial feedback hypothesis suggests that:
a. subjective emotional states deliver signals to the brain, which then cause distinct facial expressions to be produced b. the facial expressions of those around us provide us with subjective cues for how to interpret physiological arousal c. muscles in the face deliver signals to the brain that are interpreted as subjective emotional states d. facial expressions will only match subjective emotional experiences when arousal levels are low