Which statement would be the MOST consistent with social cognitive theory?

a. Children do not need to learn gender roles, because they are a part of our built-in genetic code.
b. Children learn gender roles as a direct result of operant conditioning in their earliest years.
c. Children learn gender roles as a direct result of classical conditioning in their earliest years.
d. Children learn gender roles by watching others and learning the outcomes of different actions.


d

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Regarding the obsessions seen in patients with OCD, the term "need for symmetry" refers to a. doing something a number of different ways

b. keeping things in perfect order. c. putting everything on one's right and nothing on the left, or vice versa. d. an illusion of imbalance between sides of the body.

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Terrence has just climbed all 354 steps to reach the crown of the Statue of Liberty. When he reaches the top, he meets Rose, who has climbed the steps just a few paces ahead of Terrence. They immediately decide they love one another. Which theory of emotion best describes why they believe they are in love??

a. ?James's peripheral theory b. ?The Schachter-Singer theory c. ?Cannon's central theory d. ?Darwin's theory

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Maggie always feeds and cares for her newborn infant whenever he shows signs of hunger or discomfort. By providing her infant with this predictable care, Erikson would say that Maggie's infant will

a. develop trust. b. become spoiled. c. develop a mistrust his own abilities. d. become overstimulated by so much attention.

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