What hormone is released in response to a baby's crying, which in turn facilitates the release of breast milk?
a. Estrogen
b. Oxytocin
c. Pheromone
d. Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (hCG)
b
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What term describes a situation in which a person is confronted with two inconsistent or incompatible thoughts or motives?
a) cognitive need b) cognitive dissonance c) motivated consonance d) dissociative consistency
Xavier is doing a research study investigating the moral decision making of people at various ages. He wants to know if older adults see moral issues differently than they would have when they were children,
so he gives his research subjects a moral dilemma and asks them to discuss the various moral issues involved. He then asks them to imagine how they would have answered the same question when they were adolescents. Xavier's research addresses which major issue of developmental psychology? a. Stability/Change b. Nature/Nurture c. Plasticity/Formidity d. Continuity/Stages
________ states that memory storage involves three separate systems: sensory memory, short-term memory, and long-term memory.
A. The Atkinson-Shiffrin theory B. Parallel distributed processing (PDP) C. Ebbinghaus's curve of forgetting D. The dual-code hypothesis
The finding that muscular men are more likely to become juvenile delinquents (i.e., they are more aggressive) is consistent with the idea of
A) an environmental effect that influences personality. B) an adaptive self-assessment. C) a frequency dependent alternative strategy. D) sex differences in jealousy.