If a person says that "Any round object can be considered, among other things, to be a ball," she is using ball as a:
a. preemptive construct
b. constellatory construct
c. impermeable construct
d. propositional construct
d
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Each of the following is a type of coping mechanism observed by researchers in middle childhood except
a. coping cognitively. b. coping negatively. c. coping emotionally. d. coping behaviorally.
Which term do psychologists use to describe a culturally determined psychological timepiece providing a sense of whether an individual has reached the major benchmarks of life at the appropriate time?
A. maturation B. the intimacy-versus-isolation stage C. postformal thought D. the social clock
Donna is diagnosed as having dissociative identity disorder. She can expect that her therapist will first address ____
a. traumatic memories c. reintegration b. final fusion d. safety issues
Which of the following statements best describes the effects of natural selection?
Species are eliminated, or "selected," one-by-one over thousands of years, and no new species are developed. || New species are naturally developed only every 2,000 years, and all previously existing species die out. || Species change over short periods of time, in spurts, and this change occurs roughly every 1,000 years. || Species change little by little with each generation, and over a long period of time they can develop into new species. || || ||