One of the chief goals of terror management theory is to explain why people

a. experience anxiety, alarm, and terror.
b. need self-esteem.
c. have an awareness of the inevitability of their death.
d. have an instinctive drive for self-preservation.


B

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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

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According to the text, one way to think about ____________________ is that it represents test-retest reliability as assessed over an extremely __________ waiting period

A) inter-item validity; long B) internal consistency; short C) interrater agreement; short D) interrater agreement; long

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After her friend cursed at her Tina stopped and looked up at the sky, certain that God would send down a lightening bolt to punish her friend. Piaget would say that Tina was exhibiting a belief in:

A) autonomous morality. B) immanent justice. C) the morality of cooperation. D) reciprocity.

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According to developmental psychologist Kenneth Dodge, successful __________ proceeds through a series of steps that correspond to the child's information-processing strategies

a) status management b) conflict resolution c) social competence d) social problem solving

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