Studies of causes of youth violence indicate that it is caused ______
a. primarily by watching a steady diet of violent movies and television shows
b. by biological predispositions toward aggressiveness, hostility, and fearlessness
c. by having violent and aggressive parents as role models
d. by a combination of factors interacting in a complex fashion
d
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According to the discussion of atypical prenatal development,
a. almost all intersexed individuals request surgery to make their external genitals consistent with their sex chromosomes. b. all infants are either male or female at birth, because hormonal and internal reproductive systems that have been atypical early in prenatal development will adjust themselves during the month prior to birth. c. many adult intersexuals emphasize that intersexed children should not be forced into either a male or a female gender category. d. when a more careful examination is performed on an infant originally classified as an intersexual, that infant can be clearly categorized as either male or female.
When a stimulus acquires the power to elicit a response as a result of being paired with a stimulus that already produces the response, then which of the following has occurred?
a. operant conditioning b. instrumental learning c. respondent conditioning d. insight learning
For three-year-old Tanner, the concept of friend does not encompass the full range of psychological complexities that it will when he is older. Rather, at this age, Tanner's conception of friend is synonymous with
a. peer. c. sibling. b. playmate. d. other child.
Color __________ is the tendency to perceive familiar objects as retaining their color despite changes in sensory information
a. saturation b. balance c. constancy d. maintenance