Evolutionary theory would have a difficult time explaining which of the following behaviors?
a) A group of 8-year-old boys pretend to play soldiers at war.
b) A group of 8-year-old girls are playing "house" and pretending to be mommies.
c) A 9-year-old girl thinks using make-up is silly because she is going to be a doctor and doctors don't need
d) A 7-year-old boy tells his mother he wants to grow up to be a daddy and have a wife to take care of.
c
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According to Jung, one's personal unconscious contains
a. archetypes. b. repressed or forgotten information. c. ancestral memories. d. the id and the superego.
The principle of closure states that:
A. we group objects if they are in close physical proximity B. we group objects together that appear similar C. memory for organized perceptions is superior to that of unorganized perceptions D. we tend to fill in missing parts of a figure
May was accused of shoplifting in a store; but because she has a moderate to severe intellectual disability that prevents her from appreciating what she did was wrong, the judge found her to be
a. guilty but impaired. b. not guilty by reason of insanity. c. not guilty by reason of diminished responsibility. d. guilty under exceptional circumstances.
In an early experiment, stimulating the reticular formation in a sleeping cat caused the cat to:
A) immediately wake up into an alert state. B) stop breathing and literally die in its sleep. C) experience vivid dreams. D) lapse into an irreversible coma.