A woman sets excessively high moral and ethical standards for herself. As a result, she constantly feels ashamed and guilty for making small mistakes and minor transgressions. Freud might say that
A. her id has become too powerful.
B. she has too much psychic energy fixated at the oral stage of development.
C. her ego has become too powerful.
D. her superego has become too powerful.
D
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What did Brown and Harris find when they followed women over a one-year period to study the link between depression and stressful life events?
a. None of those who experienced a severe life event became depressed. b. Most of those who experienced a severe life event became depressed. c. Although life events and depression were related, most people who experienced such events did not become depressed. d. Although life events and depression were related, the results suggested that depression actually caused the life events.
The process of fully developing personal potentials is referred to as
a. self-efficacy. b. self-reinforcement. c. organismic valuing. d. self-actualization.
Color and brightness constancy are best explained by the ____ theory of color vision.
A. trichromatic B. opponent-process C. retinex D. constancy
Can you identify which rule of science was violated in each of the following cases?
1. For nine months after being diagnosed with a treatable form of pancreatic cancer, Steve Jobs refused to have surgery and instead tried to cure himself with carrot juice, fruit, and psychics. 2. Sigmund Freud theorized that all men unconsciously experience "castration anxiety." When his fellow analysts questioned this notion and asked for his evidence, he was amused. He wrote: "One hears of analysts who boast that, though they have worked for dozens of years, they have never found a sign of the existence of the castration complex. We must bow our heads in recognition of … [this] piece of virtuosity in the art of overlooking and mistaking."