Effie is normally a shy, reserved individual. She is not very adventuresome and is usually unwilling to try new things. However, when she gets together with her best friend, Brandy, she often tries new things and becomes much more outgoing. According to Gordon Allport's theory of personality, Effie's willingness to try new things when she is with Brandy would be an example of:
a. a central trait
b. a secondary trait
c. a cardinal trait
d. a tertiary trait
B
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Brittany, who is right-handed, always holds her cell phone up to her left ear so she can do other things with her right hand at the same time. It is most likely that Brittany
A. is unusual for a right-hander, because she obviously must store language in her right hemisphere. B. will not be able to understand either the words or emotional tone of her friends as well as if she listened with her right ear instead of her left. C. will do a good job interpreting the emotional tone of her friends' voices, but she might miss a word or two of their conversation now and then. D. will do a good job of hearing all of the words her friends say, but she might misinterpret the emotional tone of their voices now and then.
All of the following are stages in Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory EXCEPT:
A) anal. B) genital. C) latency. D) sexual.
What percentage of adolescent girls diet to control their weight?
A) 20% B) 40% C) 60% D) 80%
A longitudinal study of German young adults found that those who had settled into a stable romantic relationship __________ in conscientiousness and __________ in neuroticism.
A. decreased; increased B. increased; decreased C. increased; increased D. decreased; decreased