Of the following examples, who is more likely to be successful coping with the stressor?
a. When his landlord decides to terminate the lease, Nathan sees it as an opportunity to start a new adventure.
b. When she does not get a job offer after the interview, Laila imagines that all her future interviews will end the same.
c. When her girlfriend breaks up with her, Sara believes that she will never have a lasting relationship.
d. When he does not receive the promotion at work, Marcus is embarrassed and tries to hide it from everyone.
a. When his landlord decides to terminate the lease, Nathan sees it as an opportunity to start a new adventure.
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Skinner would suggest that if you study "extra hard" for your first psychology midterm and earn an "A," for your next psychology midterm, you would
a. continue to study "extra hard.". b. reduce your study time by approximately 25%. c. reduce your study time by approximately 50%. d. devote all of your study time to your other courses.
Which approach to categorization involves forming a standard representation based on an average of category members that a person has encountered in the past?
a. Exemplar b. Network c. Typicality d. Prototype
Which memory area can retain information for only around 15 seconds without rehearsal?
a. procedural memory b. short-term memory c. retroactive memory d. sensory memory
Evidence suggests that collaborative inhibition MOST likely occurs because:
A) people tend to better encode information individually than they do in groups. B) retrieval strategies used by individuals in the group disrupt those used by others. C) people have a tendency to loaf in groups and not take the task seriously. D) retrieval occurs in a different state than does encoding.