Define ingratiation and describe two strategies that people use to ingratiate themselves

What will be an ideal response?


Answer: Ingratiation is an attempt to get others to like us. The four strategies are: expressing our liking for others; creating similarity; making ourselves physically attractive; projecting modesty.

Psychology

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The basic premise of gender-schema theory is that children actively seek objects and/or activities that

a. satisfy their biological drive for sex. b. match their own-sex schemata. c. they like, even if those activities are at odds with their self-concept concerning sex and gender. d. are valued by their parents.

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When someone believes they truly experienced a memory that they had only imagined or dreamed, he or she has fallen victim to a form of source monitoring error known as ______.

a. cryptomnesia b. slip of action c. repression d. reality monitoring error

Psychology

Which parenting style tends to produce resilient children who are also independent, competent, self-controlled, assertive, and inquiring?

a. authoritarian b. authoritative c. overly permissive d. autocratic

Psychology

Without treatment, it is expected that dissociative identity disorder will last

A. 10 years. B. a lifetime. C. several months. D. 20 years.

Psychology