Psychological escape from frustration is an example of
a. circumvention.
b. ineffective problem-focused coping.
c. ineffective emotion-focused coping.
d. displaced aggression.
ANSWER: c
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a. Behavior is determined by multiple causes. b. Behavior is shaped by cultural heritage. c. People's experience of the world is highly subjective. d. Psychology is theoretically diverse.
A psychology professor wanted to describe the adolescents in her state in terms of the personality characteristic of introversion/ extroversion. She selects a sample and measures their scores on a test of introversion/extroversion. The measure of variability she should calculate is
a. the estimated population standard deviation, because she wants to make inferences about the population based on her sample. b. the sample standard deviation, because she has measured a sample, not the entire population. c. the population standard deviation, because the sample she selected is representative of the population. d. the range, because the dependent variable is an ordinal measurement scale.
When parents belittle, scream at, or physically abuse their children, the parents, themselves, become which of the following for fear and withdrawal?
a. conditioned stimuli b. conditioned responses c. unconditioned stimuli d. unconditioned responses
To help clients understand the feelings of others, therapists during psychodrama may utilize
a. role reversal. b. reflection. c. reciprocal inhibition. d. transference.