The trend in recent decades for women to nurse their babies, at least for several months after birth, is a result of the belief that, among other things,
a. infants who are bottle-fed are more likely to develop social and behavioral problems.
b. infant who are bottle-fed are more likely to become obese.
c. mother's milk is more nutritious than infant formula.
d. mother's milk provides protective and preventive components such as antibodies.
D
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What is the purpose of a defense mechanism from the psychodynamic perspective?
a. To make sure that we make rational decisions that are based on reason and logic. b. To make sure that people who are negative and can have a negative effect on our lives are kept outside of our consciousness. c. To keep unpleasant thoughts and motivations in our unconscious mind. d. To keep us from developing psychological pathologies that can cause problems in our lives.
To which of the following fields has social psychology made important contributions?
A) medicine/health sciences B) business C) law D) all of the above
A chess-playing computer program that routinely calculates all possible outcomes of all possible game moves best illustrates problem solving by means of:
a. the availability heuristic. b. belief perseverance. c. an algorithm. d. the representativeness heuristic. e. functional fixedness.
When Marco was describing his dream, he stopped at one point, seemed a bit upset,
and then told the therapist that he could not remember any more and said, "Besides, this dream analysis is really silly anyway." Marco's therapist will most likely pay careful attention to these thoughts that Marco was unwilling to discuss. This technique of psychoanalysis is known as a(n) a. analysis of transference. b. analysis of resistance. c. covert sensitization. d. reciprocal inhibition.