According to Erik Erikson, when a person is in his or her 30s, intimacy is related to __________

a) the degree of selflessness or sacrifice of one's own needs for those of another
b) focusing on one's own pleasure in sexual matters
c) efforts to develop many acquaintances and build a broad network of support
d) the effort to exude confidence and independence


The sacrifice of one's own needs for those of another

Psychology

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_____ believed that environmental factors can either promote or inhibit the innate need for self-actualization

a. Horney c. Maslow b. Allport d. Cattell

Psychology

The middle score in a distribution of scores is the _____, and the arithmetic average for a distribution of scores is the _____

a. median; mean b. mean; medial c. mode; median d. mode; mean

Psychology

Based on the Social Side of Sex feature in your text, which of the following research methods has NOT been used to study the reasons why someone is rated as "beautiful"?

a. double images b. morphing faces to an "average" face c. experimentation with the smell of a shirt and women's ovulation cycles d. case studies of beautiful women

Psychology

Language consists of smaller components, like words, that can be combined to form larger ones, like phrases, to create sentences, which themselves can be components of a larger story. This demonstrates the ____________________ property of language.

A. hierarchical B. relational C. parallel D. propositional

Psychology