When John succeeds, his father says, "You're so smart!" However, when he fails, his father says, "You can't do that, can you? It's OK if you quit." John's father's messages could play a key role in John's adoption of a

A) fixed view of ability.
B) mastery-oriented style.
C) high academic self-esteem.
D) healthy self-image.


A

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Rashma teaches a Parent Training Workshop, and she advocates that parents get to know the uniqueness of their children. She stresses that we can't see children's points of view because we don't know how they perceive the world and that children are innately good and working toward self-fulfillment. Rashma most likely identifies with the ____ approach to psychology.?

a. ?behavioral b. ?cognitive c. ?psychoanalytic d. ?humanistic

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Casey gets up one morning after only a few hours of sleep and heats up some water for tea in a pot with a noninsulated handle. As he picks up the pot by the handle a few minutes later, he drops it with a crash. Which part of Casey's nervous system causes him to drop the pot??

a. ?substantia nigra and sensory neurons b. ?spinal cord, sensory neurons, and motor neurons c. ?cerebral cortex and motor neurons d. ?amygdala and sensory neurons

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The DSM manuals are based in large part upon the 19th century work of __________ in the area of psychiatric classification

a. Dix b. Binet c. Kraepelin d. Breuer

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____________________ is a profession involved in the application of science to recognize, identify, and evaluate physical evidence in court proceedings.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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