What are the five ways in which depictions of violence in the media contribute to violence?
What will be an ideal response?
1. Observational learning.
2. Disinhibition.
3. Increased arousal.
4. Priming of aggressive thoughts and memories.
5. Habituation.
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A recent study (Trenholm et al., 2007) found that sex education programs that teach only abstinence
a. dramatically reduce teen pregnancy rates. b. have no effect on teen pregnancy rates. c. increase contraceptive use among teens. d. reduce teen pregnancy rates among younger adolescents, but have no effect on the pregnancy rates of olderadolescents.
Which of the following statements is true of multigenerational families?
a) Multigenerational families include aunts, uncles, and cousins along with parents and children. b) Multigenerational families include cousins in addition to both parents and children. c) Multigenerational families tend to have the same composition across cultures. d) Multigenerational families include grandparents in addition to both parents and children.
Anna is a morally rigorous person who demands that her daughter remain a virgin until she is married. Anna cannot remember her own premarital sexual encounters. Which defense mechanism would likely account for this memory lapse?
A) rationalization B) denial C) repression D) projection
A psychologist who specializes in the study of perception refers to herself as a "Gestalt psychologist." You can expect that she will focus on
a. the approach known as functionalism. b. the reduction of complex human experience into simple sensations. c. the way in which the mind understands experiences as organized wholes. d. conscious experience being nothing more than the sum of individual experiences.