The cognitive process of deciding who or what caused an event is:

A) attribution.
B) balance theory.
C) cognitive dissonance.
D) confirmation bias.

Strutt and colleagues (1975) asked children ages 6 to 12 to sort cards based upon the shape on the card (a circle or a irrelevant information was also presented on the cards, what happened?

A) Children were unable to sort the cards correctly.
B) Children sorted the cards based upon the irrelevant information, not the shapes.
C) Younger children were better able to ignore the irrelevant information.
D) Older children were better able to ignore irrelevant information

A positive or negative evaluation of an object of thought defines

A) an attitude.
B) an opinion.
C) a schema.
D) a preference.

Which is not a mechanism by which the body cools itself?

A) sweating
B) vasodilation
C) panting
D) salivating

Prematurely choosing a coherent and consistent sense of self is called identity ______.

A) moratorium
B) foreclosure
C) diffusion
D) achievement

The attempt to reduce gender biases (such as the higher frequency of diagnosis in women) by changing "hysterical personality disorder" to "histrionic personality disorder" was largely successful.