Tanenhaus and coworkers' eye movement study presented participants with different pictures for interpreting the sentence, "Put the apple on the towel in the box." Their results showed the importance of in how we understand sentences in real-life situations
a. the cooperative principle
b. local connections
c. environmental context
d. instrumental inferences
c
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People who score high on both masculinity and femininity are termed
a. cross-gender-typed if female. c. androgynous. b. undifferentiated. d. feminine gender-typed if female.
On his job as a police officer, Guermo is faced with many stressors that he cannot control. His best strategy for dealing with these uncontrollable stressors is to use
a. emotion-focused coping. b. problem-focused coping. c. rationalization. d. reaction formation.
Psychodynamic approaches to therapy emphasize _____; humanistic and existential approaches emphasize _____.
A) unconscious drives; the effect of the past on current feelings B) psychosexual urges; learned behaviour C) a negative view of human nature; a positive view D) the id and superego; the ego
Regarding nonassertive people, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. Nonassertive people are seldom successful in achieving their intended goals. b. Nonassertive people are usually patient to a fault. c. Sometimes nonassertive people's pent-up anger explodes with unexpected fury, which can damage relationships. d. Nonassertive behavior is self-enhancing and is used to maintain the person's self-respect.