Research on marital satisfaction has shown that
a. marriages tend to crumble due to the build up of negative feelings that accumulate over the years.
b. an early negative reaction concerning a marriage will likely continue to be seen at about the same level throughout the marriage.
c. most divorces are due to a midlife crisis occurring about 14 years into a marriage.
d. divorce is less likely in couples who hold an overly romantic view of their marriage at its start.
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According to the discussion of miscarriages and abortion in Chapter 9,
a. women who smoke cigarettes when they are pregnant are about twice as likely as nonsmokers to have a miscarriage. b. the abortion rate for US adolescents is lower than for most European adolescents. c. in countries where abortion is illegal, women seldom die from an abortion. d. in the United States, a woman is more likely to die from an abortion than from childbirth.
The "cover story" in the famous obedience research presented in the text was that the researcher was investigating
a. the effects of group size on conformity. b. attribution errors. c. cognitive dissonance. d. the effects of punishment on learning. e. deindividuation of crowd members.
Which of the following is a true statement about the relationship between disease and genes?
A. Only 5% of the people with a mutant form of the huntingtin gene will develop Huntington's disease. B. Only 50% of the people with a mutant form of the huntingtin gene will develop Huntington's disease. C. All of the people with a mutant form of the huntingtin gene will develop Huntington's disease. D. All of the people with a mutant form of a particular gene will develop schizophrenia.
In attribution, the tendency to take credit for success and to avoid responsibility for failure is called the:
a. attribution style b. fundamental attribution error c. self-serving bias d. success-failure ratio