________ occurs when a person is blocked or prevented from achieving a desired goal or fulfilling a perceived need

a. Uncontrollability
b. Conflict
c. Pressure
d. Frustration
e. Avoidance


d. Frustration

Psychology

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Which of the following describes the cultural personality of the United States?

A. Individualistic B. High in power distance C. Low in individualism D. High in uncertainty avoidance

Psychology

According to the research on divided-attention tasks, when people divide their attention between two stimuli,

a. they usually perform very accurately. b. they report that their performance accuracy suffers, but in reality, they simply perform the tasks more slowly. c. they typically make more errors. d. their performance shifts from serial processing to parallel processing.

Psychology

The best description of neural development is that

a. brain organization is influenced by experience, but biochemical development instructions follow a more specific pattern. b. brain organization cannot be influenced by experience, but biochemical development instructions allow for many different general patterns of development. c. both brain organization and biochemical development instructions are heavily influenced by experience. d. neither brain organization nor biochemical development instructions can be influenced by experience.

Psychology

Elsa has just had major abdominal surgery and is in great pain. She asks her doctor if there is a medication that will relieve the pain from her injury. Which of the following is her doctor most likely to prescribe?

A) a sedative B) amphetamine C) an opiate D) a hallucinogen

Psychology