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The state of being male or female is known as - ANSWER sexuality
Coping behavior that permits people to meet the demands of the environment is called
______. - ANSWER adjustment
Personal growth is ______. - ANSWER proactive
Holding down a job to keep the bill collector from your doors, studying hard to graduate
from college, and making compromises in your own goals to further your relationships with
others are all examples of ______. - ANSWER
Seligman believes that boosting happiness involves each of the following fundamental
challenges EXCEPT ______. - ANSWER becoming immersed in religious devotion and
spiritual development
The average teenage girl in the United States receives or sends about ______ text messages
per month. - ANSWER 4000
The key problem with multitasking is one of ______. - ANSWER divided attention
Experiments in which neither the subjects nor the researchers know who has been given the
treatment and who has not are known as ______ studies. - ANSWER double blind
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, In a study to measure the effects of a new drug to treat anxiety, some subjects are given the
real drug while others are given sugar pills. In this situation, the sugar pills are being used as
______. - ANSWER a placebo
A weakness of correlational studies is that ______. - ANSWER
A psychologist believes that personality is the result of an active struggle between various
conscious and unconscious forces moving through the mind. This psychologist believes in
the ______ model of personality. - ANSWER psychodynamic
A man who is scolded by his boss and then yells at the employees who work for him, rather
than the boss who upset him in the first place, is using the defense mechanism of ______. -
ANSWER displacement
Amy smokes, drinks, overeats, and bites her nails. Freud would probably diagnose her as
being fixated in the ______ stage of development. - ANSWER oral
Jung and Adler both believed that Freud placed too much emphasis on ______. -
ANSWER sexual impulses
According to behavioral theory, the pairing of the color red with the concept of "stop" or
"danger" to the point that we automatically stop or prepare for danger when we see the
color red is an example of ______. - ANSWER operant conditioning
A dog has been classically conditioned to salivate to the sound of a bell. A lab worker
continuously rings the bell but never presents any more meat after ringing the bell. What is
likely to happen to the dog's salivation response? - ANSWER it will slowly decrease
and eventually stop.
A little girl learns to be great at math and science because she receives a lot of praise and
attention for getting A's in math and science. This is an example of ______ -
ANSWER positive reinforcement
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The state of being male or female is known as - ANSWER sexuality
Coping behavior that permits people to meet the demands of the environment is called
______. - ANSWER adjustment
Personal growth is ______. - ANSWER proactive
Holding down a job to keep the bill collector from your doors, studying hard to graduate
from college, and making compromises in your own goals to further your relationships with
others are all examples of ______. - ANSWER
Seligman believes that boosting happiness involves each of the following fundamental
challenges EXCEPT ______. - ANSWER becoming immersed in religious devotion and
spiritual development
The average teenage girl in the United States receives or sends about ______ text messages
per month. - ANSWER 4000
The key problem with multitasking is one of ______. - ANSWER divided attention
Experiments in which neither the subjects nor the researchers know who has been given the
treatment and who has not are known as ______ studies. - ANSWER double blind
1
, In a study to measure the effects of a new drug to treat anxiety, some subjects are given the
real drug while others are given sugar pills. In this situation, the sugar pills are being used as
______. - ANSWER a placebo
A weakness of correlational studies is that ______. - ANSWER
A psychologist believes that personality is the result of an active struggle between various
conscious and unconscious forces moving through the mind. This psychologist believes in
the ______ model of personality. - ANSWER psychodynamic
A man who is scolded by his boss and then yells at the employees who work for him, rather
than the boss who upset him in the first place, is using the defense mechanism of ______. -
ANSWER displacement
Amy smokes, drinks, overeats, and bites her nails. Freud would probably diagnose her as
being fixated in the ______ stage of development. - ANSWER oral
Jung and Adler both believed that Freud placed too much emphasis on ______. -
ANSWER sexual impulses
According to behavioral theory, the pairing of the color red with the concept of "stop" or
"danger" to the point that we automatically stop or prepare for danger when we see the
color red is an example of ______. - ANSWER operant conditioning
A dog has been classically conditioned to salivate to the sound of a bell. A lab worker
continuously rings the bell but never presents any more meat after ringing the bell. What is
likely to happen to the dog's salivation response? - ANSWER it will slowly decrease
and eventually stop.
A little girl learns to be great at math and science because she receives a lot of praise and
attention for getting A's in math and science. This is an example of ______ -
ANSWER positive reinforcement
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