Erik Erikson believed that the overall task of the individual is to acquire a:
A) balance among the three aspects of the personality.
B) positive ego identity.
C) resistance to the negative effects of culture.
D) self-actualizing career.
Answer: B
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a. investigate deep-seated conflicts about his sexuality b. provide training to help him overcome cognitive and social deficits c. help him to understand that his behavior is illegal and might lead to imprisonment d. refer him to a self-help group that will help him with his addiction
A driving force in the development of humanistic psychology was that behaviorism and psychoanalysis ignored unique aspects of humanity
a. True b. False
Initial experiments suggested that people under hypnosis could be coerced to do dangerous things, but this has since been debunked. What process is now thought to underlie those initial results?
A. Participants were also given a dose of alcohol to lower their inhibitions. B. Participants were sleep deprived and were unaware of where they were or what they were doing. C. Participants were provided with excessive compensation for their participation. D. Participants placed their trust in the researchers and wanted to perform for the experiment.
A discriminative stimulus turns behavior on and off
Indicate whether the statement is true or false