Which statement concerning speech perception in adulthood is true?
a. Loud background noise is more distracting to young adults than to older adults.
b. Older adults are more likely to recall fewer details from a conversation that took place in a noisy restaurant.
c. Older adults tend to be better at attending to multiple conversations than young adults.
d. In familiar setting, older adults tend to not use contextual cues to help them interpret what they are hearing.
b
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In a typical "catch 22" situation, women who are independent, aggressive, and unemotional may be considered "unhealthy" even though women who are vain, emotional, dependent and irrational (all "feminine" traits in our culture) may be classified as having a histrionic or dependent personality disorder. This example of gender bias in judging normality
a. occurs because women are genetically predisposed to emotional dysfunction more so than are men. b. occurs because the standards set for males are higher than those for females. c. occurs because the standards for judging normality tend to be based on males. d. occurred in the 1950s but does not occur today.
Dr. Tierney is a clinical psychologist who has undergone personal psychotherapy in the past. Dr. Kellner, also a clinical psychologist, has never before received psychotherapy. Which individual is likely to be the more effective therapy provider?
a. Dr. Tierney b. Dr. Kellner c. It's hard to say; research on this topic has been mixed. d. It's impossible to say; virtually no research has been devoted to this topic.
If Karen genuinely and deeply cares for Mark as a person, she is likely to show him:
a. conditional happy feelings b. unconditional positive regard c. unconditional appropriate regard d. conditional regard
Mark is angry when the teacher blames him for misbehaving when it actually was the child behind him who had been acting up. As he leaves after school, he shoves another boy who gets in his way. Freud would say that Mark is unconsciously using the defense mechanism of:
a. displacement. b. repression. c. projection. d. denial.