The approach to personality that stresses that personal actions are governed by each individual's unique interpretation of reality is:
a. the psychodynamic approach
b. the social-cognitive approach
c. the social-biological approach
d. the humanistic approach
D
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____, a predecessor of Darwin, speculated that all mammals had evolved from a single filament and given movement by God.?
a. ?Anaximander b. ?Plato c. ?Isaac Newton d. ?Erasmus Darwin e. ?Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
The in-depth section of Chapter 11 examines the effect of stereotype threat on problem solving. Which of the following students provides the most accurate information about an important mechanism for stereotype threat?
a. Kirsten: "When people are in a threatening situation, they try to act in a counter-stereotypical fashion." b. Liam: "Stereotype threat seems to reduce the capacity of working memory." c. Treena: "Stereotype threat seems to increase the use of the hill-climbing heuristic." d. Scott: "Stereotype threat seems to change problem-solving strategies, so that people are more likely to attend to the structural similarities of problems."
Brian plans to use antecedent manipulations to increase the amount of exercise he gets. To increase behavior through antecedent manipulation you can __________ the discriminative stimulus and cues for the desirable behavior, __________ an establishing operation for the desirable behavior, and __________ the response effort for the desirable behavior
a. present; arrange; decrease b. remove; arrange; increase c. present; eliminate; decrease d. remove; eliminate; increase
When someone focuses on one detail so much that they fail to notice other events, they are said to be engaging in:
a. selective attention c. empathy b. flooding d. polarized thinking