The social-cognitive approach to personality is sometimes criticized for:
a. adopting a view of human nature that is too pessimistic
b. being insufficient as a general account of personality development
c. stressing the role of genetic influences while ignoring the role of environmental influences
d. adopting a view of human nature that is too optimistic
B
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a. Basic emotions, like fear, are likely first processed by subcortical brain structures in the limbic system. b. Basic emotions develop early in infancy, unfolding mainly because of maturation. c. People in different culture display different basic emotions and different facial expressions. d. It is highly likely that we share the experience of basic emotions with other mammals.
____ promotes that life can never be completely explained in terms of material things and mechanical laws.?
a. ?Vitalism b. ?Determinism c. ?Monism d. ?Materialism
A study that demonstrated the effect of expertise on memory used
(a) a film on cars crashing (b) a group that believed that the world was coming to its end (c) chess positions (d) maintenance rehearsal (e) counting backwards by threes before the words were recalled
Half the questions on a comprehensive final exam on general psychology focus on psychobiology. This test probably does not have ______
a. content validity c. criterion-related validity b. reliability d. standardization