When it comes to planning for the future, people are prone to ________, meaning they are more interested in avoiding possible losses than in acquiring possible gains
a. the planning fallacy
b. perceived expertise
c. loss aversion
d. the stimulation heuristic
Answer: C
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a. Externalizing disorders increase with age, while internalizing disorders decrease. b. Externalizing disorders decrease with age, while internalizing disorders increase. c. Both increase with age. d. Both decrease with age.
A physical change that occurs frequently in men during the climacteric is __________.
A. heart problems B. pulmonary difficulties C. enlargement of the prostate gland D. hypertension
Freud claimed that anxiety stems from:
A. things we learn about negative experiences B. unconscious conflicts that arise between the id and superego with the ego in the middle C. discrepancies between the way the world is and the way we want it to be D. the subconscious belief that good things cannot last forever, but bad things can
Longitudinal research has shown that when dependent children grow up . . .
a. Most boys and girls learned to be self-sufficient adults b. Dependent girls were rated as moody, self-pitying women c. Dependent boys ended up in unhappy marriages d. Shy boys and shy girls tended to marry each other in adulthood