Imagine you studied for this psychology exam with two of your classmates. if one classmate, becky, was very nervous and “stressed out” about the exam, and the other classmate, craig, thought the exam “wasn’t a big deal,” their differing attitudes are most consistent with the finding that a. males experience many events as less stressful than females. b. people’s appraisal of stressful events are highly objective. c. some people use constructive coping techniques to reduce stress. d. people’s appraisals of stressful events are highly subjective.

Voters commonly condemn politicians for being insincere, but politicians often must disguise their true feelings when they make public statements. if they expressed their honest views—about, say, their party's policies—then achieving politically necessary compromises would be much more difficult. clearly, the very insincerity that people decry shows that our government is functioning well. which of the following, if true, most seriously undermines this reasoning? (a) achieving political compromises is not all that is necessary for the proper functioning of a government. (b) some political compromises are not in the best long-term interest of the government. (c) voters often judge politicians by criteria other than the sincerity with which they express their views. (d) a political party's policies could turn out to be detrimental to the functioning of a government. (e) some of the public statements made by politicians about their party's policies could in fact be sincere.