A friend who has been studying psychology a lot longer than you tells you that your habit of biting your nails is the result of an inner conflict between your personal need to stay a child and society's demand that you grow up

You should recognize this advice as stemming from the ________ perspective.

a. cultural
b. biological
c. humanistic
d. psychodynamic


Answer: d. psychodynamic

Psychology

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Sarah had invested most of her retirement savings in energy companies. However, when Enron declared bankruptcy, she transferred all her investments to government bonds because she decided that other energy companies were also likely to go bankrupt. In this example, Sarah's decision has most likely been influenced by the:

a. availability heuristic b. representativeness heuristic c. gambler's fallacy d. underconfidence effect

Psychology

During the active process involving selection of friends, adolescents are also engaged in the process of ______, whereby peers involve each other in right and wrong behavior

Fill in the blank with correct word

Psychology

When you study, your brain encodes information, and when you take a quiz, your brain retrieves information.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

Psychology

The model of aging for high-caste Hindu women from the Oriya culture in Orissa, India, consists of all of the following EXCEPT __________

a) life in the father's house (bapa gharo) b) the shift in social status from child to daughter-in-law c) physical changes such as the onset of menstruation and its cessation at menopause d) life in the husband's mother's house (sasu gharo)

Psychology