Consider someone who knows an act is risky, but who believes "I will be safe anyway.". This attitude is an example of what?

a. The zone of proximal development
b. Formal operations
c. Identity diffusion
d. The personal fable


d

Psychology

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Ricky's mother tends to scold him when he fights with other children, while Ricky's father encourages him to fight. This type of inconsistent discipline has been linked to

a. internalizing disorders. b. externalizing disorders. c. higher levels of anxiety. d. higher levels of depression.

Psychology

Describe the findings of Adler, Horney, Allport, Cattell, and Erikson about the environmental factor that affects personality

What will be an ideal response?

Psychology

Considering the fortress and the radiation problems together, the fortress problem represents the _________________ problem.

A. source B. target C. exemplar D. prototype

Psychology

Watson learned from Loeb that plants and simple animals, because of their biological makeup, respond automatically in characteristic ways to particular environmental stimuli. This automatic orienting response is called a(n) _____.

a. disinhibition b. sentiment c. tropism d. unconditioned response

Psychology