Suppose that you are out on a date. Although your date is somewhat entertaining, you keep having intrusive thoughts about the paper that you need to finish writing when you get home. These thoughts are evidence of the ____
a. omission bias
b. panic button effect
c. Zeigarnik effect
d. capacity to delay gratification
C
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Regarding one's personal goals and happiness, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. The importance of personal goals helps explain why specific circumstances tell us so little about happiness. b. It is often difficult to know if an event is good or bad without knowing what a person is trying to achieve in life. c. People tend to be happy if they are making progress, on a day-to-day basis, on smaller goals that relate to long-term, life goals. d. Attaining goals even if these goals do not express our deeper interests and values will still add considerably to our overall happiness.
Equal-status contact between members of different social groups
a. can reduce prejudice and stereotyping. b. decreases mutual interdependence. c. increases discrimination. d. increases intergroup conflict.
Readability of a text is the number of recalled propositions divided by reading time
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
The _____ perspective views abnormal behavior as arising from a physical cause, such as genetic inheritance, biochemical abnormalities or imbalances, structural abnormalities within the brain, and/or infection
a) learning b) biopsychosocial c) psychodynamic d) biological