Vasili has just been named to head a task force for reducing adolescent drug use. He wants to begin by eliminating the availability of drugs that teenagers use. Assuming you want to help him, which of the following should be your advice to Vasili?
A) Go for it. Drug interdiction plans have been very successful in the past.
B) This can work well, but it will need a big media campaign.
C) This is likely to work, but will take a long time and cost a lot of money.
D) This doesn't stand a chance. Don't bother. Think of something else.
D
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The sickly child who goes on to become a forceful, physically active adult is engaging in what Adler called
a. compensation. b. displacement. c. fixation. d. regression.
In comparison to psychodynamic and behaviorist explanations of human behavior and thought processes, humanistic theory
a. is more positive and endorses the idea of personal freedom. b. is more negative, but endorses the idea of personal freedom. c. is more positive, but discounts the idea of personal freedom. d. is more negative and discounts the idea of personal freedom. e. is neutral and unconcerned with issues of personal freedom.
To Jung, the psychic energy that acts like a magnet by unconsciously controlling the contents of our consciousness is called a(n) _______.
a. archetype b. complex c. defense mechanism d. none of the above
Your great uncle recently had a stroke, and there have been some subtle differences in his behavior. For example, you were playing checkers, and he was doing fine. But when your checker was "kinged" and could therefore move according to a different set of rules, he didn't seem to be able to adjust. When you asked him if he realized what the rules said, he did, but he continued to play as if he didn't. Considering what you learned about brain areas and memory, what part of his brain would you suspect has damage?
A. the hippocampus B. the diencephalon C. the prefrontal cortex D. the parietal lobe