You've recently learned that eating avocados, which you love, is bad for your health. To reduce the dissonance you experience after reading this news, you would most likely
a. question the validity of the research and the integrity of the scientists.
b. consume a larger quantity of avocados.
c. tell all of your friends about the findings.
d. reread the article more carefully.
Answer: A
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Which of the following is true of depression?
a) Depression is a rare disorder that affects a miniscule percentage of the worldwide population. b) Unlike schizophrenia, rates of depression remains constant from culture to culture. c) The incidence of depression decreases dramatically around the time of puberty. d) Women are more likely to experience depression than men.
Michelle is extremely relaxed and secure, and she seldom appears self-conscious when she is around others. Based on the Big Five model of personality, Michelle would probably score:
a. high in extroversion b. low in neuroticism c. high in agreeableness d. high in openness
"Sham rage" is produced by a. removing the cerebral cortices
b. lesioning the amygdala. c. frontal lobotomies. d. breeding aggressive strains of mice.
A researcher finds that the correlation between two variables is .63, but this correlation drops to .20 when a third variable is "partialed out of" the original correlation. In this scenario, the researcher is most likely to conclude that the third variable
A. increases the accuracy of prediction. B. does not influence the relationship between the other two variables. C. is highly correlated with the other two variables. D. is not a factor in the correlation.