The behavioral approach was influenced greatly by the work of ____, who stressed the study of observable behavior and reinforcement and punishment.

A. Sigmund Freud     
B. Abraham Maslow
C. Erik Erikson
D. B.F. Skinner


Answer: D

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a. acute tolerance b. protracted tolerance c. dispositional tolerance d. reverse tolerance

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There were three friends. Maybe you've heard of them! Harry was rational, logical, and cunning. Hermione was rule-oriented, moral, and always ethical. Ron was pleasure- seeking, found it hard to delay gratification, and usually just did what he wanted. According to Freud, Hermione was mostly

a. id. b. ego. c. superego. d. libido. e. preconscious.

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Which statement regarding Kohlberg's Moral Judgment Interview is not true?

A) Whether or not a person says an action is morally right or wrong is less relevant than the reasoning behind the response. B) His coding system is complex and requires considerable training to master. C) Responses to his moral dilemmas do not always show advancements with maturity; rather, the quality of responses are more due to socialization experiences. D) His work would suggest that people do not skip stages of moral development.

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When using the technique of meta-analysis, the __________ approach is useful if there is some debate as to whether or not a particular independent variable is statistically significant, whereas the __________ approach is useful if one wants to

determine how strong of an effect the independent variable tends to produce. a. combined estimation; combined probability b. combined estimation; combined factorial c. combined factorial; combined probability d. combined probability; combined estimation

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