How did psychologists initially identify the Big Five personality traits?
a. They identified five major genes that control certain aspects of social behavior.
b. They assembled the points of agreement in the theories of Freud, Jung, and Adler.
c. They observed the behavior of children in school and at play in several cultures.
d. They looked for correlated words to describe personality in the English language.
d
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a. the incidence of preterm birth does not seem to be related to the number of years of education a woman has. b. no ethnic-group differences have been reported in the incidence of preterm births. c. women who are overly thin are at risk for a preterm birth. d. in North America, most babies who are born prematurely are no longer considered at risk for medical complications.
Beau just learned to tie his shoes and ride his bike with training wheels. About how old is Beau?
A. 2-3 years old B. 3-4 years old C. 4-5 years old D. 5-6 years old
Discuss the concepts of hedonic adaptation and hedonic treadmill
What will be an ideal response?
According to the authors, one reason to be wary of
programs that promise to teach you speed reading techniques in return for money is that such claims do not fit with the available data on information processing and memory. This is consistent with the pseudoscience error known as A) absence of connectivity. Correct. Connectivity refers to a consistency between different research findings. B) evasion of peer review. C) exaggerated claims. D) psychobabble. Incorrect. The use of psychobabble refers to using complex jargon and terminology that most people would not understand. It is used to mask the absence of true science in a finding.