Carnahan and McFarland (2007) conducted a study to determine whether a particular type of person is likely to sign up for a study like the Stanford University prison study. They found that advertisements for a study on "prison life" attracted potential participants higher than average in ____ and lower than average in ____

The research on cognitive maps suggests that

a. peopleâ€"surprisinglyâ€"are just as accurate in reading a road map when it does not match the orientation of their mental map as when it has the same orientation. b. people create cognitive maps from several successive views, if the area is very large. c. individual differences in people's senses of direction are very small. d. there is a very high correlation between people's verbal skills and their skills in creating cognitive maps.

Why is it that rubbing the site of an injury can make it feel like the pain caused by that injury is being reduced?

A) Because vigorous rubbing of an injury site can help to close the "pain gates" in the spinal cord. Incorrect. This is not precisely how the gate-control theory of pain reduction works. B) Because touch messages travel faster than pain messages, and so rubbing the injury will overload the brain with touch messages that are not pain-oriented. C) Because vigorous rubbing of an injury site leads to a greater release of endorphins. D) Because the "nocebo" effect is activated.