Ethnologist Konrad Lorenz, evolutionary theorists and sociobiologists all suggest that aggression includes all of the following EXCEPT

a) a fighting instinct shared with the animal kingdom that stems from primitive urges.
b) a learned behavior.
c) a biological root of social behavior.
d) a primitive urge that helps strengthen the species.


b

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A. looming B. continuous C. stroboscopic D. constant

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What did Freud (the psychodynamic view) believe about somatoform disorders?

a) they are caused by an unconscious desire to resolve a sexual or aggressive conflict b) they result from magnifying symptoms and allowing false beliefs to dominate one's thinking c) they are the result of positive and negative reinforcement d) they are due to an imbalance of the neurotransmitters GABA and serotonin

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Harry's seventh-grade sex education teacher showed them a condom last week in class. They spent the class time discussing how often condoms break and listing statistics of the failure rates of different types of contraception

Harry's sex education program is most likely a(n) A) contraceptive discussion program. B) abstinence-only program. C) comprehensive sex education program. D) dual-issue sex education program.

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