One problem with using archival data (e.g., existing records of disturbances) to demonstrate that exposure to uncomfortable levels of heat causes people to behave aggressively is that
A) more people might simply be outside on a warm day than on a cold day.
B) by definition, people who participate in disturbances are not a random sample.
C) it is difficult to access such records.
D) the records focus on the past 200 years.
E) such disturbances do not involve the kind of aggression of interest to social psychologists.
A) more people might simply be outside on a warm day than on a cold day.
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Freud's psychoanalytic theory posits that the preconscious consists of
a. information that we have in mind at any given moment in time. b. the demand for instant gratification without regard to social rules or customs. c. primitive sexual and aggressive impulses, memories of troubling emotional experiences, and unacceptable wishes or ideas. d. information that can be retrieved from memory and brought into awareness at any time. e. the internalized moral teachings of parents or other significant others that may be partially conscious and partially unconscious.
For Vygotsky, private speech is
a. meaningless babbling. b. entirely silent and cannot be heard by others. c. self-talk that helps the child plan her thoughts. d. passive reporting on thoughts after they have happened.
Which of the following symptoms is not likely to be seen in a person suffering from mania?
a. Decreased need for sleep b. Enhanced energy c. Poor judgment d. Increased physical strength
Bronfenbrenner, in his ecological model, divides the environment into several nested
systems. The system which recognizes the interrelation between settings, or the "linkages and processes taking place between two or more settings containing the developing person" is the a. exosystem. b. macrosystem. c. mesosystem. d. microsystem.