A. their cohabitation will not influence the success of their marriage
B. but their marriage will have higher-than-average probability of ending in divorce
C. they have more positive attitudes toward the institution of marriage than the average couple
D. most of their college friends and acquaintances have viewed their cohabitation negatively
Related Mcqs:
- While considerable research suggests that human’s exhibit relatively poor reasoning ability what reasons have been given to be critical of this research?
A. Rationality is not absolute
B. Experiments lack ecological validity
C. Satisficing responses are rational responses
D. People have limited time and data available
E. All of the above - Research studies that examine people’s responses on the Watson Selection test, the military problem puzzle and speak-aloud protocols have demonstrated that reasoning about problems is strongly influenced by:
A. Logic
B. Detection of the problem
C. Conditional of the problem
D. Heuristics
E. Representation of the problem - Select the TWO correct statements from those below with regard to psychological research:
1.You can fully understand the result of an IQ test without knowing anything about intelligence testing and standard scores.
2. if two things are correlated this signifies that one is the cause of the other.
3. A good knowledge of psychological research methods allows you to avoid making the mistakes that journalists politicians and many others make because they lack the necessary conceptual understanding.
4. In most countries, in order to become a psychologist, you will be required to conduct a piece of psychological research.A. 1 & 2
B. 2 & 3
C. 1 & 4
D. 3 & 4 - 30-year-old woman tells a friend that she doesn’t want to marry because she is afraid of losing her freedom and independence. Erikson would say that she is having difficulty with the psychosocial task of ______________?
A. trust vs. mistrust
B. autonomy vs. doubt
C. intimacy vs. isolation
D. identity vs. role confusion - Research suggests that males exhibit____________than females and that females have a________than males.
A. less cerebral specialization, smaller corpus callosum
B. less cerebral specialization; larger corpus callosum
C. more cerebral specialization; smaller corpus callosum
D. more cerebral specialization; larger corpus callosum - Research on avoidance learning suggests that a fear response is acquired through_________conditioning: the avoidance response is maintained as a result of______conditioning.
A. classical; operant
B. operant; classical
C. classical; classical
D. operant; operant - Current research suggests the cause of Alzheimer’s disease is:
A. brain pathology
B. a traumatic childhood
C. inconsistent and ineffective parenting
D. persistent delusional thoughts - Research evidence suggests that violent people show deficits in which type of social information processing?
A. Anger management
B. Encoding social cues
C. Deception
D. Memory retrieval - Cross-cultural research in judgments of body size suggests that Americans tend to rate the ideal body______than they do in other countries.
A. Father
B. Skinner
C. Taller
D. Shorter - Some research suggests that women are more receptive to external sensory stimuli when they are what?
A. Most tired
B. Least hungry
C. Least fertile
D. Most fertile
