Max is an executive with a large financial firm. Anytime his investments do poorly, he throws temper tantrums and breaks things. Then he starts barking orders at his secretary. Which personality structure would Freud say is exerting control?
A. the id
B. the superego
C. the ego
D. the preconscious
Answer: A
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a. Feelings, thoughts, and behaviors are shaped by the unconscious. b. Behavior is a function of environment. c. Behavior is a function of biology. d. Normal behavior is caused by unconscious mental conflicts that have roots in early childhood experience.
Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education was significant because it
a. strengthened previous civil rights cases. b. overturned the Larry P. case. c. reversed the tide of racial cases related to education. d. shifted the burden of proof from employer to employee.
Does a newborn infant look longer at one type of display or another? If so, what?
a. An infant looks longest at a page that is all one color.
b. An infant looks longest at a face or a drawing of a face.
c. An infant looks longest at a straight black line
d. An infant looks equally at any display.
Correlations due solely to the use of common measurement techniques are called
a) experimenter biases b) technique errors c) method errors d) method biases