Monkeys will happily open locks that are placed in their cages. Because no reward is given for this activity, their opening of the locks provides evidence for the existence of
a. stimulus motives.
b. cyclic drives.
c. biological motives.
d. deprivation incentives.
A
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Cross-cultural research on stress demonstrates that __________.
A. depression is a common response to life challenges in all countries B. stress rarely leads to any evidence of illness in non-Western cultures C. responses to stress vary cross-culturally D. culture-specific reactions are not seen to respond to alterations in the environment
Which of the following approaches to explaining the origins of homosexuality has received the MOST empirical support?
a. biological b. psychoanalytic c. operant conditioning d. classical conditioning
Wanda was the hardest working student in her school. Her constant efforts were rewarded at graduation when she received an award as the university's best math student. She confessed at that time that in elementary school she had failed math and was told by her teacher that she should pick an occupation that did not require her to work with numbers. What might Alfred Adler have said about Wanda?
A. Wanda is the exception to the rule, in that she should have instead displayed an inferiority complex. B. She most likely is a first born child. C. Her striving for achievement resulted from her earlier feelings of inferiority. D. She achieved because she never saw herself as inferior, regardless of what happened to her in elementary school.
What is the largest area of psychology?
a. scientific c. social b. developmental d. applied