Because he is late, Harry is running very fast to get to his classroom. He runs past a group of people and knocks down a woman who was standing talking to a friend
Harry barely stops as he yells "Sorry!" over his shoulder, and keeps running. Harry has engaged in ________ aggression.
a) hostile
b) instrumental
c) social
d) normative
ANS: B, Instrumental aggression involves harming another person as a means of reaching a goal.
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A. They provide training for psychologists and psychiatrists. B. They are government-funded organizations that do research on mental disorders and related problems. C. They try to improve services and educate the government and public about various problems. D. They increase awareness of work-related stress and its impact on mental health.
Ted hears voices that tell him to bomb the school library. He is experiencing
a. delusions. c. flat affect. b. compulsions. d. hallucinations.
Which of the following is not a characteristic of correlational studies? a. They help researchers understand cause and effect
b. They indicate the strength of a relationship between variables. c. When two variables are highly related, knowledge about one variable can be used to make predictions about the other variable. d. They are helpful in generating hypotheses for experimental research.
In the classic experiment in which two groups of students studied lists of words with one group staying awake before the testing and the other group sleeping, the students who slept after studying the list remembered more because they experienced less
a. interference. b. suppression. c. encoding failure. d. state-dependent learning.