Nena is trying to decide if a job offer she has just received is a good or bad offer. I just don’t feel good about it, she thinks. Based on this feeling, Nena decides it is a bad offer. Nena’s decision process is consistent with the ________________ hypothesis. [BLANK-1]

What role does culture play in parenthood and happiness?

Fear-based messages (e.g., messages about the dangers of smoking) are almost always highly effective.

Compared to other people, people with a high need for cognition tend to have attitudes that are more resistant to change (more difficult to change).

Research suggests that when people feel guilty, they usually ____.

Your cousin asks you to pledge $5.00 for a school charity one year. The next year, she asks you to pledge $20.00. And the following year, she asks you to pledge $50.00. Even though you would have never agreed to pledge $50.00 the first year, her “gradual buildup approach” is successful. In social psychology, this approach to persuasion is known as the ____.

The cost of a bicycle is $[c]0. Suppose you can afford to pay $[d]0 now and can afford to pay at most $[w] per week. How many weeks will it take to pay off the bicycle? Give your answer as a whole number of weeks. Hint: Remember to check your work and avoid an easy mistake to make. Whatever your answer is, check to see if the bicycle would be paid off after that number of weeks. If, after checking, the amount paid up to that point is less than the cost of the bicycle, then your answer is incorrect (but may be close).

Suppose that you are going to purchase ten grocery items, with prices: $[q].[qq], $[r].[rr], $[s].[ss], $[t].[tt], $[u].[uu], $[v].[vv], $[w].[ww], $[x].[xx], $[y].[yy], and $[z].[zz]. Estimate the total cost by rounding each item’s value to the nearest dollar and then computing a sum from those rounded amounts. Do not form your estimate in any other way. Input your you answer in whole dollars.

Use the bar graph to solve the next two problems. Estimate the yearly increase in average atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide in parts per million (ppm). That is, compute

Consider the following conjecture: Multiplying both the numerator and denominator of a fraction by the same (nonzero) number never changes the fraction’s value. Is this conjecture true or false?