Deciding that a client's psychological problems represent a particular disorder is called:

A) psychotherapy.
B) assessment.
C) diagnosis.
D) triage.

According to Cosmides' social contract theory,college students should best be able to perform best on which version of the Wason selection task?

A) a task in which students are trying to help the community
B) a task in which students are trying to set up a new student organization
C) a task in which some students are trying to unfairly gain admission to the university
D) a task in which students are advocating for new student events

One contributor to the rising divorce rates is that many women

A) have become more argumentative as they have become more liberated.
B) find that men will not tolerate their desire for equality in the relationship.
C) have alternatives for economic survival other than dependence on a husband's income.
D) are marrying at an older age than in previous generations.

During a Girl Scout picnic,Lavinia was randomly selected to be on one baseball team and Carla on the opposing team.Before the game started,Lavinia and Carla were each convinced that her team was the better one.The girls' beliefs best illustrate

A) outgroup homogeneity.
B) the just-world phenomenon.
C) scapegoating.
D) ingroup bias.

Which of these is NOT part of the "modern male role"?

A) Organizational power.
B) Emotional self-expression toward women.
C) Emotional sensitivity toward women.
D) Economic inexpressiveness.

Intervention hypotheses are central to which step in the design and delivery of a program?

A) problem identification
B) problem solution
C) delineation of the causes of the problem
D) goal setting

If a coin is flipped three times, what is the probability that all three flips will be heads or that all three flips will be tails?

A) 3/8
B) 3/16
C) 1/16
D) 1/4
E) 1/8

What is a concern with how we related findings about memory research to our everyday memory experience?

A) Experimental tasks are often abstract and do not reflect the way we use our memory in our day-to-day lives.
B) Memory as a process cannot be operationalized or empiricized.
C) There are no everyday experiences which can be replicated within the laboratory.
D) Memory experiments in the laboratory have only been conducted on non-human animals.