Patty doesn't want to hang around with people from the other side of town because she says they are "weird." Patty's behavior best reflects the concept involved in:
a. ethnocentrism
b. self-efficacy
c. normative age-graded influences
d. normative history-graded influences
a
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a. showing signs of proactive interference b. using repression to push the memory out of his conscious awareness c. experiencing retrograde amnesia d. suffering from Korsakoff's Syndrome
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Which of the following subfields of psychology is correctly described?
A. Cross-cultural psychology examines the genetic basis of behavioral disorders. B. Behavioral genetics considers how our behavior is influenced by our genetic inheritance from our ancestors. C. Evolutionary psychology focuses on the biological mechanisms that enable inherited behavior to unfold. D. Clinical neuropsychology focuses on the origin of psychological disorders in biological factors.