"You can't have any pudding unless you eat your meat," says a man to his son at the dinner table. This is an example of

A. inductive reasoning.
B. a self-serving bias.
C. a permission schema.
D. the illusory correlation.


Answer: C

Psychology

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A. 24 months B. 14 months C. 11 months D. 8 months

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Dr. Dawson's research program is concerned with how a person's experience changes as the intensity of a sound is increased. Dawson is studying

a. psychophysics. b. subliminal perception. c. perceptual constancy. d. extrasensory perception. e. parapsychology.

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Shirley has been in an abusive relationship for 12 years. Her husband frequently hits her, often after little or no provocation. Shirley has been enduring this violence for so long that she has come to believe that she probably deserves the beatings. Her best friend has seen the bruises and has told her to leave her husband, but Shirley believes that leaving would be futile. Shirley could be said

to be experiencing A. the blaming the victim phenomenon. B. anomie. C. learned helplessness. D. enduring family violence syndrome.

Psychology

Most experts agree that the biggest risk factor for teenage pregnancy is ________

Fill in the blank with the appropriate word.

Psychology