Ethologist Irenaus Eibl-Eibesfeldt (1963) raised rats in isolation. When other rats were finally introduced into their cages, rats raised alone _______, suggesting that _______.
A) fled from the new rats; aggression must be learned.
B) used the same aggressive behaviours as other rats; aggression need not be learned.
C) did not aggress against them; instrumental aggression does not exist in nonhumans.
D) could not defend themselves; aggression is learned.
E) become more aggressive than other rates; isolation leads to aggression.
B) used the same aggressive behaviours as other rats; aggression need not be learned.
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a. dissociative disorders b. schizophrenia c. anxiety disorders d. personality disorders
Regarding a comparison of the talk-oriented therapies, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. Cognitive therapies tend to be action therapies less concerned with insight than with helping people change harmful thinking patterns. b. Freud claimed that his patients could expect through therapy to only change their "hysterical misery into common unhappiness.". c. In client-centered therapy, the therapist tends to take a position of authority, stating what the patient's dreams, thoughts, or memories "mean.". d. Better self-knowledge was the goal of traditional psychoanalysis.
With respect to moral development, an egocentric child
a. believes that his or her cultural norms are superior. b. can imagine other people's feelings. c. can evaluate whether punishment is appropriate for the offense. d. evaluates events in terms of personal consequences. e. functions at a conventional level of reasoning.
He coined the phrase "nature-nurture controversy."
a) Alfred Binet b) Sir Francis Galton c) Charles Darwin d) Thomas Bouchard