One study of the self-schema presented students with 40 questions for which they pressed yes or no. Researchers found that participants were more likely to remember the information when
A. the words had the ability to generate emotions.
B. participants were asked about a rhyme.
C. a self-referent question was difficult to answer.
D. the question was processed about the participants themselves.
D
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A group of 100 female undergraduate students are surveyed. More than half say they have been victims of sexual aggression. The men who coerced them into intercourse did so without planning to do so and manipulated them by using alcohol and interpreted their protests of sexual advances as meaning "go ahead." What, if any, aspect of this group's survey results is unusual?
a. It is unusual for most acts of rape to be unplanned. b. It is unusual for one-half of undergraduate females to report being victims of sexual aggression. c. It is unusual for men who coerce sex to use alcohol. d. It is unusual for men who coerce sex to interpret protests as insincere.
A _____ control group is used to account for the influence of clients' expectations that they will receive therapy
a. wait list b. attention c. no contact d. placebo
Which statement is TRUE?
A) Half of your best friend's intelligence is due to her genes and half is due to her experiences. B) The heritability of intelligence is between .5 and .7 for both poor and rich children. C) Across all populations, between 30 and 50% of the difference between people's intelligence test scores is due to differences in environmental factors. D) The heritability coefficient tells us how much of each person's intelligence is due to environment and how much is due to heredity.
The concept of a setting in community psychology may refer to which of the things below?
a. a microsystem b. an organization c. a locality d. either ‘a' or ‘b'