Sitting in a very noisy restaurant, you are able to screen out all the other conversations around you so you can listen to the friend with whom you are conversing. This is an example of __________
a) Broadbent's forgetting theory
b) the homecoming queen party phenomenon
c) attention
d) intimacy
ANS: C, This is an example of attention, as you are only focusing on what interests you.
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a. Misses b. Time-outs c. Correct rejections d. False alarms
Using the conceptual framework developed by James Marcia, the proportion of individuals who are in identity achievement __________ across late adolescence and early adulthood, and the proportion in identity diffusion __________.
A. increases; increases B. increases; decreases C. decreases; increases D. decreases; decreases
Binet's two major principles of test construction were
a. general mental ability and age differentiation. b. reliability and validity. c. norms and standardization. d. age differentiation and age scale.
Overgeneralizations about attributes for each sex are called
a. sex differences. b. androgyny. c. gender-role norms. d. gender-role stereotypes.