Adjusting to a sudden death is easier when the survivor __________
A) understands the reasons for it
B) concludes that he or she contributed to it
C) believes that it was random
D) assumes that it was preventable
Answer: A
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According to the discussion about adolescent females' friendships,
a. lower-class European American women often find that their friendships provide good support for themselves. b. female friendships are much more intimate than male friendships. c. adolescent females say that the characteristics they value most in a friendship are popularity and a sense of style. d. no gender differences have been found in the closeness of adolescent friendships.
You are a new researcher in a social psychology lab. The study you are working on is examining the effects of alcohol on aggressiveness. You are aware of the hypotheses of the study and eager to find evidence that supports them, and you find yourself acting in a less polite manner with participants who are assigned to the alcohol condition. This differential treatment of participants across
conditions will threaten a. the statistical significance of the results. b. the internal validity of the study. c. the external validity of the study. d. the interrater reliability of the study.
Suppose that a friend missed class and asks you to tell him, word for word, about the professor's description of the next assignment
Your description captures the basic message, even though none of your sentences is precisely what your professor said. This phenomenon is a good example of a. abstraction. b. boundary extension. c. change blindness. d. a script.
_____ is the process by which we categorize events into three groups based on the significance they have on our well-being: irrelevant, positive, or stressful
a. Secondary appraisal b. Menopause c. Primary appraisal d. Rappraisal