The tendency to pursue activities that are novel, thrilling, and exciting is known as

a. fatalism.
b. sensation seeking. c. reality avoidance. d. risk bingeing.


b

Psychology

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In the morning, people who sleepwalk will most likely __________.

A. tell you about the experience B. give you details about their dream C. have little memory of the event D. report feeling tired from all the activity during the night

Psychology

An ethologist might argue that an infant's attachment or bonding behaviors

A) are determined primarily due unconscious issues. B) have survival value for the individual and species. C) are learned through observation. D) depend upon the cultural and historical context.

Psychology

The amount of "interpersonal distance" we maintain between ourselves and others is one aspect of nonverbal communication

a. true b. false

Psychology

Piaget’s stage of “formal operational thinking” has been the subject of many years of cross-cultural research. This body of research has revealed that

a. this developmental stage is found to occur in the vast majority of the societies studied. b. individuals in many societies never exhibit this type of thinking. c. formal operational thinking is determined entirely by culture rather than individual experience. d. all adolescents and adults in Western technological cultures display formal operational thinking.

Psychology