Three-year-old Tamika is transitioning from pull-up diapers to regular underwear. According to Freud, her current stage of psychosexual development is likely to be
A) oral.
B) anal.
C) phallic.
D) latency.
B) anal. Bowel control (i.e., delay of gratification) is a major aspect of the anal stage.
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Sandra rushes over to her friend Denise’s house because Denise is distraught over a recent breakup with her boyfriend. Even though Sandra has a term paper due the next day, she wants to console Denise because she knows Denise would do the same for her. This is an example of ____
a. mutual kinship b. anticipatory cooperation c. atypical selflessness d. reciprocal altruism
Suppose you are thinking about a male student whom you met during your first year of college
You can recall that he knew your high school English teacher, that he didn't like his roommate, that he was average height and weight, and he wore glassesâ€"but you cannot remember his name. This situation is an example of a. graceful degradation. b. spontaneous generalization. c. serial processing. d. default assignment.
During college, you took several semesters of a foreign language. According to Ebbinghaus, you would ______ a lot of information early on, but then the rate of loss ______ as the length of time since study ______.
A. forget; slows; increases B. remember; slows; increases C. forget; increases; increases D. remember; increases; decreases
An experiment was conducted in which a person was talking to a young adult stranger,
and two workers carried a door between this person and the young man. Another young man was switched with the original stranger. Only half of the participants tested this way noticed the switch. What were the conclusions regarding this experiment? a. More college students did not notice the switch because they were in a hurry and thinking about getting to their next class. b. More older persons did not notice the switch because their brains are beginning to be damaged by the onset of senility. c. More older persons did not notice because they encoded both young men in very general terms as a "college student." d. More older persons did not notice the switch because of poor visual acuity.