Which of the following is not an explanation for why people in a positive mood are more susceptible to persuasion?
a. A positive emotional state is cognitively distracting, making evaluation of arguments difficult.
b. A good mood makes you feel that all is well, and you don't work as hard to evaluate arguments.
c. Happy people want to maintain that mood, so they don't want to ruin it with critical evaluation of information.
d. A positive mood makes people more thoughtful, so they are more likely to engage in central processing.
d
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The public perception that people with mental illness "beat the rap" as a result of being judged NGRI is a. incorrect
b. correct. c. true in murder cases only. d. true for males who commit crimes but not for females who commit crimes.
Which of the following has research found to be true of internals?
A. They are more likely to complete their college degree than externals. B. They are more ambitious than externals. C. They show higher levels of performance in the workplace. D. All of the above
Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1. "People with amnesia exhibit decrements in implicit learning. " 2. "The hippocampus is not necessary for implicit learning to occur. " 3. "The strategies of highlighting material, rereading it, and summarizing it have been shown to be of moderate utility as a study technique. " 4. "Making mental images of study material has been shown to be more effective than is distributed practice. " 5. "Practice testing has been shown to be an effective study strategy. "
Tad was driving in his car the other day and started to feel his heart begin to race
Within a minute or two, he began sweating, shaking, and felt like something terrible was going to happen. Because this experience was so intense, Tad pulled off the road until he began to feel better. Within about fifteen to twenty minutes, he returned back to his normal self. While the episode only happened in his car on a few different occasions, he has gotten to the point where he refuses to drive when he goes out, for fear that another episode will occur. Tad seems to have symptoms of _____ a) conversion disorder. b) panic disorder with agoraphobia. c) a specific phobia. d) panic disorder without agoraphobia.