Which of the following is not a characteristic of precocious readers?
a. above average IQ
b. large working memory capacity
c. poor school performance in the late elementary school years
d. elevated interest in reading
C
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A wife comes home from work and finds her husband studying for a test. Trying to be thoughtful, she tells him how much she appreciates his dedication to school. Based on research on the relationship between affect and cognition,
most probably her husband will a. be positively affected by her comments and do better on his test. b. be distracted by her comments and do poorly on his test. c. not be affected one way or another by the compliment. d. feel better about himself, but be unaffected with respect to his test performance.
Regarding autosuggestion, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. When people are hypnotized, autosuggestion would explain why their actions seem to occur without any voluntary intent. b. Autosuggestion likely underlies how Ouija boards spell out answers to questions despite no apparent conscious interference. c. Those theorists who view all hypnosis as selfhypnosis would see the hypnotist's role as that of a faciliatator. d. Hypnosis as a form of autosuggestion would support the state theory of hypnosis.