In his study with spider-phobic women, Bandura found that stress declines with __________.
A. knowledge about the stressful situation
B. ability to escape the situation quickly
C. confidence that the person will be able to cope effectively
D. recognition that the person is not alone in dealing with the situation
Answer: C
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Dr. Jones hopes to demonstrate that children who eat a more nutritious breakfast also tend to have more academic success than their peers. If this result is obtained, then ____ would be the predictor variable and ____ would be the criterion variable for the study
a. the nutrition in the breakfast; the level of success b. the level of success; the nutrition in the breakfast c. those who eat a high nutrition breakfast; those who eat a low nutrition breakfast d. the children; the level of success
Golda slammed her finger in the car door. As she held ice on her injured finger, she commented "At least it isn't broken." This is an example of what?
A. upward counterfactual B. planning fallacy C. optimistic bias D. downward counterfactual
Adler believed that a boy raised in a family of girls is likely to develop:
a. no gender orientation b. a very masculine or very feminine orientation c. a woman's rather than a man's sexual urges d. into a transvestite
The child's word "goed" is an example of
a. the inflection of a regular verb. b. the inflection of a function word. c. overextension. d. underextension. e. overgeneralization errors.