The concept of adaptation is most central for which influential perspective in contemporary social psychology?
A) the existential perspective
B) the evolutionary perspective
C) the neuroscience perspective
D) the cultural perspective
Answer: B) the evolutionary perspective
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a. divide household chores more evenly, but lose contact with prior sex partners more b. retain relationships with former sex partners more, but divide household chores less evenly c. divide household chores more evenly and retain friendships with former sex partners more d. divide household chores more evenly and retain friendships with former sex partners less
A psychologist gives a group of participants 20 personality tests. He looks at the correlations between each test and each of the other 19 (a total of 180 correlation coefficients). He finds two correlations that are statistically significant—that is, that his statistical tests tell him would not occur more than five times out of 100 . What should the psychologist conclude from his study?
A. The two statistically significant correlations probably represent "real" relationships. B. The tests he used probably were not valid. C. The two statistically significant correlations might very well be chance findings. D. The tests he used may not be reliable.
Rational coping involves three steps—acceptance, exposure, and:
A) thinking. B) bargaining. C) anger. D) understanding.
Stanley wants to determine which of two reinforcement schedules is more attractive to rats. He trains a rat to press a lever for food, and then puts the rat into an experimental chamber containing two levers. Pressing one lever produces reinforcement on an FR 10 schedule; pressing the other lever produces reinforcement on an FI 10" schedule. Lever pressing is on a _________
a. multiple schedule b. chain schedule c. concurrent schedule d. redundant schedule