Formula sheets, the key method steps for every topic and 8 practice problems, with full solutions at the back.
Kosslyn found that the time to mentally scan between two landmarks on an imagined map increased with their distance. This suggests that mental images:
Participants practise retrieving some items from a studied category (e.g. "fruit – orange"). Later, unpractised items from the same category (e.g. "fruit – banana") are recalled worse than items from unpractised categories. This is:
A teenager drives dangerously, believing "accidents happen to other people, not to me". Elkind called this belief the:
Hazan and Shaver's "love quiz" found that adults' romantic attachment styles:
The fundamental attribution error is the tendency to:
An older couple has deep closeness and a firm commitment, but little passion left. In Sternberg's theory this is:
Which statement about the monoamine hypothesis of depression is most accurate?
A researcher finds that adoptees whose biological mothers had schizophrenia develop it more often than adoptees whose biological mothers did not, despite being raised by unaffected families. What does this design help to separate?
Answer: A · Preserve spatial relationships of the real scene
The scanning results support the view that images have depictive, spatial properties, though some researchers argue the results reflect tacit knowledge.
Answer: A · Retrieval-induced forgetting
Anderson and colleagues showed that retrieval practice can inhibit related, competing memories, so remembering can itself cause forgetting.
Answer: D · Personal fable
The personal fable is the adolescent belief that one's experiences are unique and that one is protected from harm, which may contribute to risk-taking.
Answer: D · Matched infant type proportions and related to recalled childhood care
Adults' self-reported styles (secure, avoidant, anxious) appeared in proportions similar to infant studies and related to recalled parental relationships, though data were retrospective self-reports.
Answer: A · Overestimate personality and underestimate the situation when explaining others' behaviour
When explaining others' behaviour, people overemphasise dispositional causes and neglect situational pressures.
Answer: D · Companionate love
Companionate love combines intimacy and commitment. Consummate love has all three components, romantic love is intimacy plus passion, and empty love is commitment alone.
Answer: A · It links depression to low monoamine activity but struggles to explain the delayed drug response
The hypothesis grew from the effects of drugs on monoamines. The delay of several weeks before benefit suggests that downstream changes, such as receptor adaptation, matter too.
Answer: B · Genetic influences from the effects of the rearing environment
Adoption studies, such as Heston's and the Danish studies, separate genetic risk from family environment because the child is raised away from the biological parent.
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