Imagine that researchers show some behavior in men does not attract reproductive partners, but yet it is still a common behavior. Why might this be the case?
A. Intersexual selection
B. Intrasexual selection
C. Behaviors has an indirect benefit on reproductive success.
D. Behavior produces dominance.
Answer: C
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____ is said to occur when African-American and Latino-American children worry about their performance on intelligence tests. This worry causes anxiety, which distracts them from the test questions and negatively affects their test scores
a. Heritability b. Divergent thinking c. Stereotype vulnerability d. Stereotype prediction
If the null hypothesis is true and we run the Mann-Whitney test on our data, the expectation is that
a. the difference scores will all be zero. b. the test will be significant. c. the sum of the ranks in the two groups will be approximately equal (assuming equal sample sizes). d. the number of subjects in each group will be about the same.
Clara has been diagnosed with a psychological disorder. It seems like she has two different personalities. She is allergic to peanuts but the other personality, residing within her, is not allergic to peanuts. Clara has most likely been diagnosed with__________
A) illness anxiety disorder B) somatoform disorder C) bipolar disorder D) dissociative identity disorder E) Select
The main influence of evolutionary theory upon psychology came through:
a. radical behaviorism b. sociobiology c. cognitive science d. research on instinctual drift