When under stress, 14-year-old Allie twirls her hair and sucks her thumb. This might be described as a _____

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word


fixation

Psychology

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Briefly describe the strengths and weaknesses of the behavioral approach to personality

What will be an ideal response?

Psychology

In which of the following ways would mental images NOT be used?

a. to change our feelings b. to make decisions c. to improve a skill d. to prevent automatic processing

Psychology

A scientist placed some bacteria in a sterile dish of agar. He counted the number of live bacteria at regular intervals afterward. He observed that at first the bacteria grew slowly at first, and then they increased very rapidly in number. Finally, the count leveled off and then declined rapidly as the food supply was used up. A graph of this relationship would be

a. U-shaped b. linear c. monotonic d. nonmonotonic

Psychology

_________ sleep deprivation has been demonstrated to improve symptoms of people suffering from major depression.

a. Stage 1 b. Stage 2 c. Stage 3 d. REM

Psychology