Bill is a retired aircraft mechanic, who has agreed to talk to
a group of high school students about the early days of commercial aviation. Bill is concerned that any slip in his memory will confirm the belief that all older people are forgetful. Because he is anxious and preoccupied about possible memory lapses, Bill actually does have problems with his memory. This illustrates that
a. negative stereotypes can have a self-fulfilling quality.
b. most stereotypes have some degree of truth to them.
c. all older people have frequent memory lapses.
d. stereotypes are never positive.
ANSWER: a
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a. newborns simply had less exposure to the voices of their fathers and unfamiliar women. b. this might be a basis for attachment to the mother. c. while female infants preferred their mother's voices, male infants preferred their father's voices. d. this preference disappeared by the time the infants were two months old.
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
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a. it assumes determinism in explaining behavior b. it assumes people are not free to choose their own type of existence c. it proposes that the most important cause of behavior is subjective reality d. it proposes that the most important cause of behavior is objective reality
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