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1 | | Most of us have quite accurate insight into the factors that influence our moods. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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2 | | Most people rate themselves as worse-than-average socially desirable characteristics. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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3 | | Memory is like a storage chest in the brain, into which we deposit material and from which we can withdraw it later if needed. Occasionally, something gets lost from the "chest" and then we say we have forgotten. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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4 | | People's behavior is best predicted in terms of their personalities or inner dispositions. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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5 | | To alter the way people act, one needs first to change their hearts and minds. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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6 | | People who are made self-conscious by looking into a mirror act more in line with their attitudes. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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7 | | The greater the reward promised for an activity, the more one will come to enjoy the activity. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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8 | | In overall vocabulary, happiness, and intelligence, males and females are not noticeably different. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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9 | | In countries everywhere, girls spend more time helping with housework and child-care, while boys spend more time in unsupervised play. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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10 | | Most people would disobey an authority who orders them to hurt a stranger. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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11 | | Persuaders will always be more effective if they focus on sound logic and argumentation. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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12 | | Messages from sources with little credibility often grow in their ability to influence us as time passes. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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13 | | People pull harder in a tug-of-war when part of a team than when pulling by themselves. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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14 | | The greater the cohesiveness or "we feeling" in a group, the more likely the group will make a good decision. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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15 | | When White and Black students are shown faces of a few White and Black individuals and then asked to pick these individuals out of a photographic lineup, both White and Black students more accurately recognize the White faces than the Black. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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16 | | To be mentally healthy, people need an opportunity to act out, and thus to vent, their aggression. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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17 | | The more often we see something -- even if we don't like it at first -- the more we grow to like it. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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18 | | As suggested by the dumb-blond idea, physically attractive men and women tend to be looked on by others as colder, dumber, and less moral than the plainer people. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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19 | | Opposites attract. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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20 | | One of the best predictors of whether any two people are friends is their sheer proximity, or geographical nearness, to one another. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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21 | | When we feel guilty, we are more likely to help those around us. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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22 | | When two parties in a conflict distrust each other, bringing in a third-party mediator generally escalates the conflict further than if the two negotiate their differences face-to-face. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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23 | | Depressed persons tend to be unrealistic in their perceptions of themselves. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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24 | | Despite conventional wisdom, people's desire to develop a meaningful philosophy of life has not changed over the past 30 years or so. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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25 | | Fewer than half of Americans surveyed consider themselves to be “very happy.” |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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