Theories are vital tools for developmental researchers because they

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provide organizing frameworks for our observations of people.

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Refusing to recognize some anxiety-provoking event or information is the Freudian defense mechanism called:

a. denial c. rationalization b. sublimation d. displacement

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Two metaphors that have provided the framework for research in motivation are:

a. the machine metaphor and the Godlike metaphor b. the drive metaphor and the cognitive metaphor c. the sensory nerves and motor nerves metaphor d. the ghost in the machine metaphor and the Andromeda metaphor

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List three strategies for assessing information in the field of child development

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The belief that misfortunes only happen to others is referred to as the illusion of:

A. foreclosure. B. helplessness. C. crystallization. D. invulnerability.

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