Which of the following statements best describes the danger of excessive reminiscence?
A. The person is able to bring closure to a painful memory.
B. The person begins to achieve distance from a past event.
C. The past becomes more of a focus of attention than the present.
D. The present becomes more dominant in one's thoughts than the future.
Answer: C
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According to Popper, the theories of Freud and Adler cannot be considered scientific because they:
a. make too many risky predictions b. make postdictions rather than predictions c. make predictions rather than postdictions d. are too easily falsified
Which of the following people is likely to demonstrate a facial expression that is symmetrical, that is uses approximately the same muscle groups on both sides of their face?
a. Lisa, who is genuinely happy to run into her aunt while shopping. b. Marcus, who is bored to tears by his boss's lecture but knows that his job rests on looking interested. c. Mariposa, who doesn't really want to watch all 3 of her kids while her husband goes to the ballgame, but agrees to do it because it is father's day. d. Sarah, who is angry at her boyfriend for coming home late but doesn't want to show it because they have a nice romantic evening planned.
During meiosis, at times chromosomes sometimes fail to divide properly and as a result the person may have 45 or 47 chromosomes (or even, in rare cases, 48 or 49). Which of the following best describes this phenomenon?
a. chromosomal disorder b. genetic misprinting c. mitosis error d. gene displacement
The probability of obtaining a random sample mean which is lower than the
population mean is a. 1.00 b. 0 c. .50 d. none of these, since a sample mean can never be lower than a population mean