According to the authors, why are people often wrong in asserting that social psychology only reflects common sense?
A) People's inferences about psychological phenomena are rarely based in fact.
B) Common sense is never correct.
C) People are largely ignorant about what exactly social psychologists study.
D) Most grandmothers' advice is based on common experience, not scientific evidence.
E) So-called common sense findings often make more sense in retrospect than in advance.
Answer: E) So-called common sense findings often make more sense in retrospect than in advance.
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a. high level of statistical significance to the scales. b. individual's temperament. c. lack of reliability to the scales. d. high validity concerning the scales.
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A. Sandra is given less difficult work to complete, whereas Ella receives more challenging assignments. B. Ella lacks experience and understanding of the complex material. C. Sandra has developed selective optimization, whereby she can look further into the material to compensate for her slower reactions. D. Sandra has greater verbal skills development than Ella.
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a. The women would be happier with their marriages than the men. b. Those who had been married about 15 to 25 years would be the happiest, no matter whether they are men or women. c. Newlyweds would be the least happy, no matter whether they are men or women. d. The women whose children had left home would be somewhat happier than those whose children still live at home.
Which of the following is a criticism of Freudian psychoanalysis by personality theorists?
a. We have more free will than Freud acknowledged, and we can choose to act and grow spontaneously. b. We are influenced by our experiences before age 5 more than by the future that holds our hopes and plans. c. To develop a theory of human personality, only the healthy, positive human qualities need to be studied. d. Freud paid too much attention to the psychologically healthy and emotionally mature, to the exclusion of the emotionally disturbed.