Which of these people would be most likely to rank lowest in agreeableness?

A) Briana, who takes care of feral cats
B) Trevon, who says what he thinks without censoring it
C) Anthony, who often writes on Facebook about how blessed he is
D) Sydney, who holds open a door for others when entering a building

Someone suffering from cystic fibrosis

A) carries it as a recessive gene.
B) suffer from an inability to produce mucus.
C) has more than 23 chromosomal pairs.
D) is likely to have a younger mother.

Which statement regarding sexual orientation has NOT been supported by empirical evidence

A)  Homosexuality is a learned preference acquired when same-sex stimuli have been paired with sexual arousal. 
B)  There is a greater concordance for sexual orientation between identical twins than between other siblings. 
C)  In some cases, female homosexuality has been linked to prenatal exposure to abnormally high levels of androgens. 
D)  There are anatomical differences in the brain between homosexual and heterosexual men.

How is personality defined

A)  an individual's unique set of consistent behavioural traits 
B)  an individual's way of perceiving the world, influenced by experience 
C)  an individual's unique set of characteristics 
D)  an individual's overt behavioural traits

In contrast to Piaget, information-processing theorists focus on

A) unconscious desires and drives.
B) emotional development of the child.
C) how children manipulate or process information.
D) how reinforcements and punishments shape behavior.

What assumption humans often seem to make is the basis for the False Cause Fallacy?

Which of the following is characteristic of the first stage of childbirth?

A) The fetus emerging from the birth canal
B) The cervix becoming dilated and effaced
C) Braxton-Hicks contractions
D) Delivery of the placenta

Anais notices a strange object moving in the corner of her room and immediately experiences unease and an increased heart rate.She then remembers that she left her toy robot with the battery running in the corner of the room,and she realizes that must be the object.She begins to experience the emotion of relief.According to Lazarus's theory of emotions,how should we classify Anais's memory of her toy robot?

A) a primary appraisal
B) a secondary appraisal
C) a background emotion
D) a secondary emotion

C) Wright Mills defines quality of mind as

A) a person's level of intelligence.
B) the educational values of a society.
C) the ability to influence other people with your way of thinking.
D) the ability to view personal circumstance within a social context.

Scientific theories which are not needlessly complex, but instead provide the simplest, most concise representation possible of the admittedly complex phenomena under investigation are valued as ___________________.