Jack LaLanne, who made a successful career out of bodybuilding in spite of the fact that he was thin and sickly as a young man, and Helen Keller, who was blind and deaf but became an outstanding thinker and writer, are examples of the use of which defense mechanism?
a. projection
b. regression
c. intellectualization
d. compensation
D
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To attempt to discover why some adolescents begin using drugs and alcohol, a social psychologist would most likely study the
A. effects of peer pressure and the influence of role models, such as rock or movie stars, on adolescents' decision-making processes. B. internal conflicts and struggles within substance-abusing adolescents. C. chromosomal pattern of substance abusers, in search of a genetic predisposition to substance abuse. D. personality profile of adolescents engaged in substance abuse.
What measures of success do IQ tests predict? Discuss any disagreement amongst social scientists about the quality of the predictions of IQ tests
What will be an ideal response?
Where should we look to find Ia sensory fibers?
A. at the neuromuscular junction where they are forming synapses with muscle fibers B. wrapped around the middle sections of muscle spindle fibers C. in the junctions between muscles and tendons D. in joints and in the skin
According to Piaget, equilibration involves the processes of
A) assimilation and accommodation. B) egocentrism and constructivism. C) maturation and conservation. D) conservation and scaffolding.