Jessica’s mother receives a call from her daughter’s teacher telling her that Jessica has been misbehaving during class time. According to the psychoanalytic approach, her daughter’s misbehavior _______

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).


Ans: is the result of unconscious mental activity

Psychology

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Dorinda tells you that her 12-year-old cousin recently completed an intelligence test that translated raw scores into deviation IQ scores. Dorinda knows that her cousin's deviation IQ score was 75, but she is not sure what this means. You should tell her that her cousin:

a. answered 75% of the questions correctly on the test b. scored below the mean for 12-year-olds c. scored above the mean for 12-year-olds d. scored at the mean for the average 9-year-old

Psychology

Experiments can determine cause-and-effect relationships with the effects being measured by the __________variable

a. extraneous b. independent c. correlational d. dependent

Psychology

James worked for three years for a company in which the supervisors constantly criticized the employees, promoted their friends, and unfairly set work schedules. It has now been seven years since James worked for this company, and he cannot seem to remember the names of the people he worked with or even the details of the unfair treatment he received. James' forgetting is most likely due to

a. memory decay. b. disuse. c. redintegration. d. repression.

Psychology

One doctor tells you that you have a 10 percent chance of dying during the surgery, while another doctor tells you that you have a 90 percent chance of survival if you have the surgery. Understanding that you have the same survival odds means that you have not succumbed to

a. framing. b. the underlying base rate. c. the representativeness heuristic. d. functional fixedness.

Psychology