When hiring new employees at his company, Jake has a tendency to generalize a favorable impression to unrelated personal characteristics, such as their physical appearance, a tendency known as the effect
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Which combination of basic personality traits from the five-factor model seems most influential in the development of dependent personality disorder?
A. High neuroticism and high agreeableness B. High introversion and low conscientiousness C. High fantasy proneness and low neuroticism D. High excitement seeking and low openness to feelings
A __________ is a means of building schemes in which an infant who has stumbled onto a new experience caused by his or her own motor activity tries to repeat the event again and again.
A) sensorimotor reflex B) circular reaction C) mental representation D) goal-directed behavior
Topics covered in are often related to past and present mood symptoms, relevant risk factors such as interpersonal and cognitive factors, medical and treatment history, ongoing problems and comorbid diagnoses, motivation for change, social support, and suicidal thoughts and behaviors
a. structured interviews b. unstructured interviews c. projective tests d. personality tests
During the trial of a teenager accused of a break-in, the judge issues instructions to disregard the testimony given by the teenager's current employer, a pizza restaurateur. According to the reactance theory, what affect will the instructions have on the jurors?
A. Jurors' freedom to consider all available information will be expanded. B. Jurors' reliance on the inadmissible evidence will be heightened. C. Jurors may act in ways that weakens their sense of decision-making freedom. D. Jurors will disregard evidence given by other employees of the restaurateur.