__________ proposes that personalities mature as people enter important adult social roles.

A) Attachment theory
B) Social learning theory
C) Humanism
D) Social investment theory

Which of the following is probably not a between-family difference in environment?

A) child-rearing attitudes
B) birth order and spacing of children
C) socioeconomic status of parents
D) parental religion

One example of the biopsychosocial approach is

A) a theory stating that people develop same-sex erotic attachments if segregated by sex at the time their sex drive matures.
B) an integrated understanding of sexual motivation in terms of sex hormones,sexual fantasies,and cultural values.
C) a therapy used to help men and women with their sexual dysfunctions.
D) a refuted explanation for the development of sexual orientations.

Rhonda is arguing in favor of a national flat tax policy to Bernard. Because they are in a noisy, crowded nightclub ,it is difficult for Bernard to focus on what Rhonda is saying or to process the information, but he is having fun and feeling more positively about the flat tax. Rhonda has used the peripheral route to persuasion, which __________.

A) is mainly used to deceive people
B) has greater influence when we are distracted and unable to carefully process the message
C) focuses primarily on the accuracy of the assumptions that form the base of the argument
D) all of the above

A woman who is in relentless pursuit of thinness for more than six months, so much so that she is starving herself to achieve this goal is exhibiting symptoms of

A) binge-eating disorder.
B) anorexia nervosa.
C) bulimia nervosa.
D) bipolar disorder.

People with lower Self-efficacy expectations have biological as well as psychological reasons for remaining calmer and are less prone to be disturbed by adverse events.