A feminist focusing on how prejudice and discrimination against women are related to global capitalism and neocolonialism is a

A) radical feminist.
B) liberal feminist.
C) global feminist.
D) cultural feminist.

In a famous early study in social psychology, fans of two rival football teams were asked to watch footage of an actual game that was very close. Researchers found that fans of the two teams literally "saw" different games; things that were deemed "out" by fans of one team, for example, were deemed "in" by fans of the other. This was early evidence of the phenomenon known as ____.

A) counterfactual thinking
B) the illusory correlation
C) the confirmation bias
D) the simulation heuristic

Gender identity refers to

A) our biological sex.
B) the sense of being male,female,or a combination of the two.
C) the set of socially expected behaviors for males and females.
D) internalized ideals for appropriate sexual behavior.

In Stanley Milgram's study, whenever some of the "teachers" would hesitate his research assistants would say one of the following, except for:

A) "Although the shocks may be painful, there is no permanent tissue damage, so please go on."
B) "The experiment requires that you continue."
C) "It is absolutely essential that you continue."
D) "You cannot stop, the experiment must continue."

After the first word is spoken,

A) vocabulary immediately grows at an extremely rapid pace.
B) further increases in vocabulary occur very slowly and steadily.
C) vocabulary growth is slow for several months and then speeds up dramatically.
D) no further vocabulary growth takes place until around 18 months.

Which of the following is one of the ways that sexual issues for homosexual couples differ from those of heterosexual couples?

A) The context in which gay men and lesbian women have sexual difficulties is similar to their heterosexual counterparts.
B) Gay and lesbian couples cannot get help from sex therapists because their sexual activities do not meet the technical definition of sex.
C) Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals must deal with both societal homophobia and internalized homophobia.
D) Problems among heterosexual individuals most often focus on other behaviors, whereas the sexual dissatisfaction among LGBTQ persons focuses on sexual intercourse.

Functionalism was a school of psychology that focused attention on the

A) adaptive value of thoughts and behaviors.
B) component elements of sensory experience.
C) disruptive effects of unconscious motives.
D) treatment of psychological disorders.