As a developmental psychologist, you are asked to give several parents suggestions for fostering positive self-evaluations in their children. Based on previous research, what would be your advice?

Skills, emphasize strengths.

What will be an ideal response?


Early care-giving promotes a secure emotional attachment and provides positive support and encouragement, outcomes may matter, but also stress effort and improvement, provide instruction and guidance to help your child improve, give honest feedback, teach goal-setting.

Psychology

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Which type of therapy focuses on helping families focus on changing disruptive patterns of communication and improving the ways in which members relate to each other?

a. group therapy b. marital therapy c. couples therapy d. family therapy e. behavioral modification

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In the body, the ____________________ system controls systems of the body that are involuntary, such as heart rate, digestion, blood pressure, and the activities of internal glands

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

Psychology

The classification of psychology as a hub science MOST supports the idea that an undergraduate education in psychology will prepare students for:

A) a variety of different career paths related to the psychology hub. B) primarily a career as a clinical psychologist. C) primarily a career conducting laboratory research in academic settings. D) graduate school in all the other hub sciences.

Psychology

If a theory is said to be testable, we know that it leads to hypotheses that _____

a. explain almost any result b. can be tested empirically c. apply to different species d. can be tested mathematically

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