A positive psychologist is most likely to devote her attention to studying the______
a. influences of unconscious processes on mental illness
b. role of learning and conditioning in shaping a child's personality
c. "good life": the study of subjective well-being
d. role of evolution in shaping behaviors linked to human survival
c
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According to research about heterosexism,
a. men have more negative attitudes toward lesbians and gay males than women do. b. people tend to be just as negative about lesbians as they are about gay males. c. students who have just graduated from college show the same degree of heterosexism as first-year college students. d. heterosexist attitudes are not correlated with racist attitudes.
Carol spends most of her time at home with her parents. She wants to join the other students at school functions, but she is afraid she will do something inappropriate, resulting in embarrassment and rejection. Carol most likely would be diagnosed with which personality disorder?
a. antisocial c. avoidant b. obsessive-compulsive d. schizotypal
Sarah was required to learn a list of 20 numbers in order. Initially, she took 15 repetitions to learn the list. After five days, she had forgotten the list of numbers and had to re-learn it. This time, she only took eight tries to re-learn the numbers. The difference between the number of repetitions she originally took to learn the numbers and the number of repetitions she took to re-learn the
numbers is known as _____. A) dissociation B) savings C) the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon D) displacement
The effects of Huntington disease begin in which stage of development?
infancy adolescence middle adulthood late adulthood