Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
Researchers turn to qualitative methods for their capacity to provide an objective perspective on human behavior.
Ans: F
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Which of the following statements is true of Bowlby's (1969) evolutionary theory of attachment?
a) Mothers of securely attached infants have been characterized as being insensitive and uninvolved. b) Mothers of securely attached infants are suspected of being intrusive and overstimulating. c) Infants explore their environment, regardless of the proximity to an attachment figure. d) Infants have a preprogrammed, biological basis for becoming attached to their caregivers.
Which scenario is the best example of self-handicapping?
a. Roy is a cigarette smoker. He does not like to hear about the health risks of smoking. He therefore ignores such information, or dismisses it as invalid, and continues to smoke. b. Neither Yuki nor her friends ever study very much for school. Since Yuki does not know anyone who studies very hard, she assumes that in fact no one ever studies hard. As a consequence, she continues to have terrible study habits. c. Jacques has a big wrestling match coming up, but he fears that he will lose. The week before the match, he claims that he is "really busy with other studies," and does not practice at all. Even though he may not realize he is doing this, he is setting himself up so that he will have an "excuse" in case he loses the match. d. Sometimes, when Olivia has a long day, she yells at her children when she gets home. She usually feels very bad about this right after doing it. But then she realizes that she can "justify" her behavior ("I am the parent here," she thinks, "and I have the right to discipline my children.") In other words, she is able to rationalize, or excuse, a not-so-good behavior.
Copying a behavior that is unlikely to occur naturally and spontaneously is referred to as ____
a. ?imitation b. ?duplication c. ?imprinting d. ?mirroring
Research on the relationship between moral thinking and moral behaviors has shown that when making moral decisions, delinquent adolescents a. tend to reason at lower levels than nondelinquents
b. rely heavily on universal ethical principles. c. tend to think at the postconventional level. d. typically fail to consider factors like reward and punishment.