When individuals have rank-order personality consistency, they maintain the ways in which they ________ other people the same age.

A) are the same as
B) spend time with
C) are different from
D) are liked by

A test is constructed to identify people who will develop schizophrenia. Of the 100 people the test identifies, 93 show signs of developing schizophrenia within five years. The test may be said to have high:

A) internal reliability.
B) predictive validity.
C) concurrent validity.
D) test-retest reliability.

The depth-of-processing approach __________.

A) assumes that the longer material is in working memory the more deep will be its memory traces
B) is primarily concerned with a type of memory called procedural
C) suggests that actively thinking about material leads to better memory than does maintenance rehearsal
D) holds that meaningless material produces greater depth of processing than does material that can easily be fitted into meaningful contexts

In the ______________ view of social cognitive theory,the evolutionary pressures create changes in biological structures for the use of tools,which enable organisms to manipulate,alter,and construct new environmental conditions.

A) one-sided evolutionism
B) physical evolutionism
C) bidirectional
D) monodirectional

The youngest of Dawid and Tuila's three children has just started kindergarten.Dawid and Tuila have had to change their morning and bedtime routines,child-care arrangements,and discipline practices,and the family's income has suffered as a result of this shift,yet they are happy to make these changes for their children.These changes reflect the fact that:

A) Dawid and Tuila do not know enough about parenting.
B) their children must be especially difficult.
C) Dawid and Tuila are trying too hard to please their children.
D) Dawid and Tuila are demonstrating generativity.

Latisha appreciates the fact that she has been trained in the art of public speaking because she finds that in many situations she can employ her _____ as a power currency.

A) interpersonal linkages
B) resource control
C) expertise
D) communication skills
E) responsibility