One reason that psychologists abandoned the view of instinct as a universal explanation of human behavior is that

a. Freud's popular theory rejected the importance of instinct.
b. there had been little success in generating a list of human instincts.
c. the behaviorist influence began to diminish in the 1920s.
d. cross-cultural studies found enormous behavioral variation.


Answer: d. cross-cultural studies found enormous behavioral variation.

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Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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According to your textbook, which of the following would be considered a mental health resource?

a. religious leaders/counselors b. employee assistance programs c. health maintenance organizations (HMOs) d. all of these

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A) can focus on relations between a general and two specific categories at the same time. B) have the capacity to think through a series of steps and then mentally reverse them. C) can order items along a quantitative dimension. D) are able to recognize more than five separate and distinct categories of items.

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