After Hunter has a terrible fight with his boyfriend, he returns home and yells at his dog for sleeping on the sofa-even though the dog is usually allowed to sleep on the furniture. Hunter's process of venting his anger on a safer target is an example of __________.
A. vicarious assertiveness
B. displaced aggression
C. sublimation
D. regressed frustration
Answer: B
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According to developmental psychologist William Damon, the second stage of building friendship during middle childhood is __________.
A. basing friendship on intelligence B. basing friendship on others' behavior C. basing friendship on trust D. basing friendship on psychological closeness
What causes menopause?
a. All the eggs in the ovaries have been used up. b. The secretion of progesterone and estrogen increases markedly. c. The ovaries no longer produce the same amount of hormones. d. The uterus is no longer capable of releasing eggs.
In the practice of psychotherapy, ____________________ involves drawing ideas from two or more systems of therapy, instead of committing to a single system of treatment
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Every time Bert slices onions, the onions burn his eyes and tears run down his face. One day, he opens the silverware drawer, pulls out the knife that he uses only to peel onions, and immediately starts to shed tears from the sight of the knife. In this situation, the onion is the ____, and the knife is the __________.?
a. ?conditioned stimulus; unconditioned stimulus b. ?unconditioned stimulus; conditioned stimulus c. ?conditioned response; unconditioned response d. ?unconditioned response; conditioned response