In studies examining structural brain differences between homosexual and heterosexual individuals, researchers have found that a section of the anterior commissure, which connects the two hemispheres of the brain, is __________ in homosexual men
a. demyelinated
b. absent
c. larger
d. smaller
Answer: C
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Cognitive dissonance results when
a. a person makes the fundamental attribution error. b. one's attitudes and behaviors are inconsistent. c. stereotypes are confirmed through experience. d. attraction is high between two people. e. elaboration likelihood is high.
Foley and her colleagues (1999) proposed that the research on self-reference may actually underestimate the magnitude of the self-reference effect. They reached this conclusion because
a. participants typically process items at a shallow level of processing, even when they are instructed to use deep processing. b. the meta-analysis of the data on the self-reference effect demonstrates that this technique is not especially helpful. c. participants cannot really relate items to their own lives. d. the participants reported that they had often used self-reference processing, even when they had received other instructions.
When struck by light, the visual pigments in the rods
a. recombine. b. multiply. c. bleach. d. become more sensitive.
To determine whom advertisers select for their television commercials, you analyze 500 commercials. What does your analysis reveal?
a) More women than men appear on screen. b) Men and women appear equally on and off the screen. c) Men are more likely than women to be presented as authorities. d) Women are more likely to be used on screen because women control so much of the spending in the country.