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Amanda is a self-assured, outgoing, confident person. She is about to make a presentation to a hiring committee and she really wants to get the job. How do you expect she will feel and act?


A) More outgoing and confident than she feels, which might lead the committee to dislike her.
B) Exactly the same as ever, because she is confident.
C) She will feel and act completely unselfconscious.
D) Much more like a shy person than like herself.

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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According to the text, labelling oneself as shy, depressed, or under the influence of alcohol can serve ______________ function.


A) an anger-reducing
B) a self-handicapping
C) a concurrence-seeking
D) a group-identification

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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Which of the following individuals is least likely to suffer from health problems?


A) Carmen, a married woman who works as a waitress.
B) Heath, a single male university student.
C) Kristen, a divorced mom of two children.
D) Bruce, a single male who has is close to his sister.

E) A) and D)
F) B) and D)

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According to the text, even when making up their own questions, interviewers' expectations may influence their questioning


A) if they have definite pre-exiting ideas
B) irrespective of what they think
C) even if they don't have any pre-existing ideas.
D) All of the above.

E) B) and D)
F) C) and D)

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According to the text, which of the following is a social-psychological principle that can be applied to the treatment of psychological difficulties?


A) attitudes-follow-behaviour
B) we are cognitive misers
C) acceptance breeds compliance
D) none of these choices.

E) All of the above
F) B) and C)

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Discuss how the hindsight bias and the confirmation bias can lead clinicians to be overconfident in their clinical judgments.

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Several studies cited in the text indicate that people ___________ in regions of the world with greater income inequality.


A) are less educated
B) spend more on food
C) die younger
D) consume more

E) B) and C)
F) All of the above

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Which of the following theories most clearly predicts that we will feel anxious when we are motivated to impress others but doubt our ability to do so?


A) social learning theory
B) self-presentation theory
C) self-perception theory
D) cognitive dissonance theory

E) A) and D)
F) None of the above

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Joey is a pre-med student who has just been studying about intestinal disorders. He goes out with his friends to eat at a pub, and later that day develops severe stomach cramps and diarrhoea. He starts wondering whether he has colitis or another intestinal disorder. This example best demonstrates how


A) we tend to underestimate the frequency that we experience symptoms.
B) information about illnesses can cause us to underestimate our symptoms.
C) we tend to interpret symptoms according to familiar disease schemas.
D) overt symptoms are more likely to be interpreted as illness compared to subtle symptoms.

E) A) and B)
F) None of the above

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According to self-presentation theory, we will feel social anxiety when we are


A) motivated to impress others but doubt our ability to do so.
B) motivated and able to impress others, but they ignore us.
C) in any circumstance in which we can be observed.
D) depressed.

E) A) and C)
F) A) and B)

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According to the text, shyness is a form of ____________ characterized by self-consciousness and worry about what others think.


A) loneliness
B) social anxiety
C) depression
D) social incompetence

E) None of the above
F) A) and B)

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"Explanatory style" refers to


A) the complexity of one's persuasive arguments.
B) one's habitual way of explaining life events.
C) the pitch and speed with which one communicates.
D) whether one relies primarily on reason or emotion in debating an issue.

E) C) and D)
F) A) and C)

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Research has reported that newlywed couples who become angry while discussing problems


A) experience catharsis and better long-term relationships with their spouses.
B) are subsequently more susceptible to problems of depression and loneliness.
C) suffer more immune system suppression the next day.
D) are more prone to develop colon cancer in the subsequent six months.

E) None of the above
F) B) and D)

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A growing body of evidence reveals that people who undergo highly stressful experiences become


A) more resistant to low-level illnesses like colds and flu.
B) become more vulnerable to disease.
C) less self-disclosing and more socially isolated.
D) stronger and more socially skilled than unstressed people.

E) B) and C)
F) A) and D)

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Which of the following does not belong?


A) negative explanatory style
B) external attribution
C) global attribution
D) stable attribution

E) A) and D)
F) All of the above

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Which of the following is the best predictor of overall happiness?


A) a satisfying job
B) satisfaction with finances
C) satisfaction with one's community
D) satisfaction with marriage

E) A) and B)
F) B) and C)

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Chapman and Chapman had university students and professional clinicians study the relationship between patients' test performances and diagnoses. They found that


A) if students or clinicians expected a particular association, they perceived it, regardless of whether the data was supportive.
B) students and clinicians only saw relationships that were indeed supported by the data.
C) professional clinicians were more accurate than students in assessing relationships.
D) students and clinicians only recognized positive relationships if the actual correlations were greater than .75.

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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Some researchers believe that psychotherapists' susceptibility to confirmation bias may explain


A) their patients' recovered memories of sex abuse.
B) the occurrence of transference in therapy.
C) the sadder-but-wiser effect in depressed patients.
D) the beneficial effects of patients' optimism.

E) B) and D)
F) None of the above

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Explain how emotions influence susceptibility to illness, including how optimism, stress, and explanatory style relate to illness.

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Identify and explain two social-psychological principles that may be usefully applied to the treatment of psychological difficulties.

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