Regarding emotional intelligence, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. Many valuable lessons can be learned from paying close attention to your emotions and to the emotions of others.
b. People who are emotionally intelligent have an ability to amplify or restrain emotions, depending on the situation.
c. Positive emotions tend to broaden one's focus, while negative emotions tend to narrow one's focus.
d. Emotionally intelligent people try to use the most rational approaches when making a decision.
D
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Using findings from research discussed in the text, describe two strategies that have been tried with some success to address maltreatment of younger children. How are these strategies connected to the risk factors for child maltreatment?
What will be an ideal response?
According to the discussion of saccadic eye movements during reading,
a. the purpose of this kind of eye movement is to move the eye to a location where the acuity is especially high for the stimulus you wish to see. b. the research requires the participants to introspect about the nature of their eye movements during reading. c. the eye moves forward by a fixed, inflexible number of letters during each saccadic eye movement. d. good readers are more likely than poor readers to make regression movements, so that they can integrate the new material with the old material.
The average seven-year-old child with an IQ of 100 has a mental age of
a. 107. b. 10. c. 70. d. 7.
A nineteenth century physician's diagnosis of drapetomania, which purported to explain why slaves sought freedom, exemplifies:
a. the recognition of the intolerable conditions of slavery and the need to escape those conditions. b. how notions of mental disorder can serve the interests of those who are in power by putting a veneer of science on a subjective process. c. how great suffering elicits the "fight-or-flight" response, which is a normal human reaction. d. recognition of panic disorder as far back as the early years of the nineteenth century.