Gladys is a therapist who is constantly reminding her clients that people have a natural capacity for personal growth and positive qualities. Gladys likely endorses the ________ of personality.
A. psychodynamic perspective
B. learning perspective
C. trait perspective
D. humanistic perspective
Answer: D
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Tara finds this difficult to accept because she has been told over and over that it is healthy to "ventilate" her anger. Based on your reading of Chapter 1 and Chapter 2, design a research study that Tara could conduct in order to examine this issue. What will be an ideal response?
Mary was bitten by a dog. Now she fears the dog that bit her as well as other dogs. What aspect of classical conditioning is illustrated in what happened to Mary?
a) extinction b) generalization c) discrimination d) spontaneous recovery
In a study examining infants' ability to perceive faces, 6-month-olds could
A) discriminate individual faces of both humans and monkeys equally well. B) distinguish human but not monkey faces. C) distinguish monkey but not human faces. D) only distinguish their mother's face from an unfamiliar woman's face.
On your drive home after class, you notice that people talking on cell phones while driving take
longer to move after the light turns green than people who are not on the phone. Based on this observation, you decide to study how cell phone use alters driving behavior. You have just found a research idea through A) inspiration B) theory C) everyday occurrences D) serendipity