Jordan has been dating Jessica for several months, and he finds out that another boy at school made inappropriate sexual comments to her. Jordan is now furious and is preparing to fight with the other boy after school. Jordan's motivation to behave so aggressively is based on ________ factors.
A. emotional
B. social
C. drive-based
D. cognitive
Answer: A
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a. the fundamental attribution error. b. the actor-observer effect. c. a self-fulfilling prophecy. d. cognitive dissonance. e. stereotyping.
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a. It may be nonmonotonic. b. It begins at zero frequency. c. It indicates skewness of the distribution. d. The data points lie at the upper real limit of each interval.
Darwin's theoryof natural selection has had the most impact on which branch of psychology?
A) clinical B) social C) developmental D) evolutionary
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A. ability to describe traumatic events B. memory of color C. description of natural phenomena D. forms of grammar common to all languages