The term _____ refers to an apparently irrelevant activity sometimes exhibited by animals when confronted by conflict or thwarted from attaining a goal
A) ?latent inhibition
B) ?schedule-induced activity
C) ?instinctive drift
D) ?displacement activity
D
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Suppose a professor is discussing a personality test that was designed to test optimism. She says that the test has high validity. From this statement, you know that
a. people who get a low score one week are likely to get a high score the next week. b. there are significant gender differences on this test. c. individual differences in optimism can be explained by factors such as hormones and brain structures. d. the test predicts how optimistic people are, using some other measure of optimism.
Throughout the world, there are more old women than old men because
men tend to succumb to fatal disease more often than women. men die at higher rates than women. more males die than females die at younger ages. men work at more dangerous jobs than do women.
Terry and Ahmad plan to adopt 3-year-old Oleg, who has been living in an orphanage since birth. Terry and Ahmad should know that early, prolonged institutionalization __________
A) fosters resilience in later childhood and adolescence B) increases the brain’s capacity to manage stress C) leads to a decrease in size and activity in the cerebral cortex D) has little impact on intellectual development
Compared to the right hemisphere, the left hemisphere tends to be
(a) more analytical (b) larger (c) more global (d) more simple neurologically