Whenever Mike enters his family's den where the sports trophies that he has won are on the mantle, his self-esteem is temporarily boosted. This is best described as caused by the fact that ________
A) self-esteem is responsive to life events
B) self-esteem is the result of family members' opinions
C) athletic skill is highly prized by males
D) people generally feel better about themselves in their own homes
E) while self-esteem is temporarily boosted, it is very short-lived
Answer: A
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a. behaving; desiring b. thinking; emotional c. desiring; behaving d. emotional; thinking
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A. consult with individuals outside of the experimental field, like businessmen or librarians B. use an institutional review board to approve the ethics before starting the experiment C. establish federal funding for the experiment D. use guidelines suggested by previous studies, especially early, foundational studies
Prey animals may survive longer if they run faster, but evolution does not produce prey species that run more and more fast each generation. This is likely because
A. the muscles and anatomy involved in running faster have a reproductive cost. B. because genetic drift prevents such changes from occurring. C. because subsequent mutations become less and less likely with each generation. D. because predators are also evolving to be faster.
Piaget may have underestimated young children's cognitive competence in causal reasoning because:
A. he required children to manipulate objects they were not yet capable of manipulating. B. he used only interviews with his own children as the basis of his conclusions. C. he relied on verbally presented problems and verbal justifications of reasoning. D. his problems deliberately tried to confuse young children.