[多项选择]

Contrast Effect

Contrast effect is a psychological phenomenon related to judgment. Typically, when we experience any given thing, we tend to compare it to other things of the same type. We especially compare it to things of the same type that we most recently experienced. This tendency interferes with our ability to make unbiased judgments of any article based on its inherent qualities and/or its suitability for a given purpose. The phenomenon has important applications in marketing, politics, and game theory to name but a few.
Question: Using information from the reading and the lecture, explain how the professor’s personal experience is related to the reading passage.
Now hear a talk on the same subject.

[单项选择]Some researchers have undertaken some psychological studies which prove that many children develop fears of（）dangers
A. imagination
B. imaginary
C. imaginable
D. imaginative

[单项选择]Contrast may make something appear more beautiful than it is when （） alone.
A. seen
B. is seen
C. to be seen
D. having been seen

[填空题]What is a Greenhouse Effect

[简答题] J-curve effect

[填空题]Contrast to researchers’ expectations, dysfunctional family relationships and poor (1)______
communication styles appear to have much effect on whether young children become (2)______
depressed, a study has found. While many children under 5 exhibit symptoms of
depression, they often have not been exposed against known risk factors, experts find. (3)______
And many children who are exposed to those risk factors~ appear to be resilient.
In the study, Australian researchers looked at many factors, including marital partner (4)______
change, mothers’ health in pregnancy, a child’s health in the first six months of life and
marital anxiety in more than 5,000 mothers over a period of five years. But few of them
correlated to early childhood depression. The authors warned that their results, published (5)______
in the June issue of Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, depended on reports
by mothers about their children’s experience, and that the