Beliefs about the personal traits and behaviors of individuals who belong to specific groups are called:
a. stereotypes
b. self-fulfilling prophecies
c. fundamental attribution errors
d. social inferences
A
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a. It rejects the importance of childhood experience as a cause of adult disorder. b. It is a cognitive approach used to understand family dynamics. c. It involves exploration of past interpersonal relationships. d. It employs a humanistic-existential set of concepts.
Research has found that short-term memory most involves the ____ of the brain.
A. brainstem area B. corpus callosum C. prefrontal area D. cerebellum
Describe separation anxiety. When does it occur?
What will be an ideal response?
Despite its dangers, a young man continues to take cocaine because of the feeling of euphoria it produces in him. This powerful arousal of his nervous system is probably due to cocaine's ability to __________.
A. inhibit enzymes that break down neurotransmitters B. increase the release of neurotransmitters C. block the receptor sites for neurotransmitters D. prevent neurotransmitters from being reabsorbed into the synaptic vesicles