Imagine that there is an equal level of stress in Gerald's and Mary's lives. Ruling out biological differences, we might expect Mary to be more prone to depression if she ____
a. is employed outside the home and has no children
b. maintains a nontraditional gender role
c. sees herself as controlling her life situations
d. tends to ruminate and amplify her depressive moods
d
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A study by Ford and Widiger (1989) suggests that the gender differences observed in the prevalence of many personality disorders (i.e., histrionic, dependent, antisocial) may be due to:
(a) genetic differences (b) gender specific learned behavior patterns (c) gender bias on the part of the diagnosing clinician (d) cultural scripts that dictate the type of disordered behavior appropriate for each gender
A study that demonstrated the effect of expertise on memory used
(a) a film on cars crashing (b) a group that believed that the world was coming to its end (c) chess positions (d) maintenance rehearsal (e) counting backwards by threes before the words were recalled