Sometimes when we encounter behavior that is unpleasant or unexpected, we assume that something about the person—and not the situation—caused the behavior. In this sense, lay people are most like
a. sociologists.
b. personality psychologists.
c. social psychologists.
d. philosophers.
Answer: B
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a. a child in middle childhood. b. an only child. c. a child in early childhood. d. an adolescent.
The psychoanalytic view in psychology is most clearly associated with:
a. Carl Rogers b. Sigmund Freud c. John B. Watson d. Max Wertheimer
The large survey study by Sprecher and her colleagues (1994) found that men are more likely than women to be willing to marry someone
a. older and good-looking. c. good-looking and less educated. b. more educated and younger. d. older and less educated.
The scientific method dictates that theories must be revised or elaborated as new observations confirm or refute them. This means that
a. theories should be modified directly after obtaining one set of disconfirming data. b. theories are modified only as the researchers who implement them go on to other research areas. c. theories should be modified after a good amount of evidence calls for different predictions than those provided by the original theory. d. theories are not useful for fueling new research efforts.