Bill is knowledgeable, but he also can see the consequences that different choices in life will have for the future. Paul Baltes and his colleagues would describe Bill as possessing which of the following traits?
a. extroversion
b. openness to experience
c. wisdom
d. agreeableness
c
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Which of Noam Chomsky's linguistic concepts relates to how the human brain is uniquely and genetically predisposed to comprehend and produce language?
A. infant-directed speech B. nativist retrieval C. language-acquisition device D. universal grammar
The short-term memory capacity (digit-span) in a normal adult is about:
a. 9 items. b. 7 or 8 items. c. 4 or 5 items. d. 14 or 15 items.
Suppose that Mark is a person with a very realistic and planful approach to life. Luke is a person who lives for the moment, deluding himself about the realities of life and instead focusing on the next "big adventure" in his life
When Mark and Luke enter middle adulthood, which of the following statements is the best description about how they are likely to experience this transition? a. Mark will be much more likely than Luke to have a midlife crisis. b. Luke will be much more likely than Mark to have a midlife crisis. c. Both Mark and Luke will be very likely to have a midlife crisis, because they are men. d. Neither Mark nor Luke will be likely to have a midlife crisis, because they are men.
When Jerome took the MMPI-2, he displayed a pattern of responses that indicated the presence of extreme suspiciousness and feelings of persecution. Jerome most likely had a high score on which clinical subscale of the MMPI-2?