Changes in which ability are related to memory decline?

A) practice
B) expertise
C) processing
D) attention

Professor Crane was ecstatic when he learned that his research study had been approved for publication.His feelings of joy quickly dissipated,however,when he heard a colleague recently had three different research articles accepted for publication.His declining emotional satisfaction is best explained in terms of

A) a happiness set point.
B) relative deprivation.
C) the experience of flow.
D) the adaptation-level phenomenon.

According to the Social Readjustment Rating Scale, which of the following events would have the highest score?

A) divorce
B) Christmas
C) beginning school
D) marriage

Taken together,the social arrangements that organize the production,distribution,and consumption of goods in a society constitute its

A) goods and services.
B) economy.
C) private sector.
D) primary economy.

Individuality consists of what two dimensions?

A) crisis and commitment
B) mutuality and permeability
C) personality and role experimentation
D) self-assertion and separateness

In one well-known study on empathy, participants had to watch a confederate receive electric shocks. Some participants were told that they had to watch 10 full trials of shocks, while others were told that they could leave after watching the first two trials. One set of participants were also told that their values and interests were similar to those of the confederate (similar group) , while another set were told that their values and interests were different from those of the confederate (dissimilar group) . After the first two trials had been completed, participants were asked whether they would switch places with the confederate-who was apparently very upset by the shocks due to a negative childhood experience with electricity. Which group almost never agreed to switch places?

A) The 10-trial high-similarity group
B) The 10-trial low-similarity group
C) The two-trial high-similarity group
D) The two-trial low-similarity group