Suppose Fred discovers that his girlfriend has been having an affair with one of his best friends for over a year. He completely freaks out and starts running through the streets, uncontrollably screaming and randomly attacking people and things. The term used by social psychologists to describe this kind of behavior is ____
a. scapegoating
b. the bad apple effect
c. koro
d. running amok
D
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When would it be better for a psychologist to use Raven's Progressive Matrices than the Stanford-Binet or Wechsler test?
a. The psychologist wants to use an adaptive test. b. The psychologist needs a test with high reliability. c. The psychologist is trying to determine the person's areas of strength and weakness. d. The psychologist is testing someone who is just learning to speak English.
In terms of individual differences in intelligence among infants,
a. there are no individual differences in intelligence among infants. b. infant intelligence develops in a discontinuous, stage-like process across childhood. c. there can be a great deal of variability in intelligence among infants. d. there is a genetic process of development that minimizes individual differences in infant intelligence.
The defining feature of dissociative identity disorder is that aspects of the individual's personality are
A. fixated. B. completely suppressed. C. dissociated. D. dissociative disorders.
A friend is taking a history of science course, and has chosen to write a paper on the history of psychology. She comes to you for advice on who were the important people in the early history of psychology and the basic ideas underlying their approaches
What kind of helpful information could you give her concerning the evolution of modern psychology? What will be an ideal response?