Differences between throwing and kicking abilities of male and female children are best explained as being the result of
a. size differences.
b. hormonal factors.
c. differential levels of practice.
d. genetics.
c
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Which of these facts is central in the learning approach to personality? a. Most people's personality remains stable over many years. b. Your behavior varies from one situation to another
c. Personality represents a conflict among id, ego, and superego. d. Personality can be described in terms of five major traits.
For Freud, the only personality structure present at birth is the ______
a) id b) ego c) superego d) preconscious
Which of the following has NOT been offered as an explanation for infantile amnesia?
A) Infants' original early memories are encoded as physical actions, and these action memories are highly resistant to reconstruction efforts later in life. B) Infants have not yet developed a stable sense of self and therefore information in their early memories is likely to be disorganized and difficult to retrieve in later life. C) The manner in which infants encode memories may not match the manner in which they are asked to retrieve the memories when they are older. D) The degree of frontal lobe development in infancy may make it possible for infants to remember actions, but not be able to describe these memories using words in later life.
In which of the following societies would you expect the period called "adolescence" to be the longest?
a. the United States during the early 1800s b. the United States today c. a hunter-gatherer society in rural South America in the early 1800s d. a hunter-gatherer society in rural South America today