What conclusion was reached by researchers studying the relationship between stressful life events and anxiety/depressive disorders?
a. Stressful life events are much more common precursors of depression.
b. Stressful life events are much more common precursors of anxiety disorders.
c. Stressful events frequently precede the development of both anxiety and depressive disorders.
d. The reported association between life events and these disorders is the result of the tendency to expect such a relationship rather than a true association.
Answer: c.
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a. 25% b. 30% c. 35% d. 40%
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a. neglected. b. rejected. c. antisocial. d. controversial.
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A) a child psychologist can predict with 50% accuracy a client's extraversion level if she knows the extraversion levels of the child's parents. B) children inherit 50% of the tendencies toward extraversion or introversion from their mother, and 50% from their father. C) in any given child, half of extraversion is caused by genetic factors and half is caused by the environment. D) in a large group of children, 50% of the variability in extraversion scores would be due to genetic factors.
The central concept on Wundt’s voluntarism was:
a. association. b. involuntary behavior. c. will. d. apperceptive mass.