When Sigmund Freud developed his theory of personality by observing patients in his clinical practice, he was using which of the following?

a. The correlational method
b. The inductive method
c. The limiting condition method
d. The dominant method


b

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The vestibular senses are concerned with __________

a) touch, pressure, temperature, and pain. b) the location of body parts in relation to the ground and to each other. c) movement and body position. d) your location as compared to the position of the sun.

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When Timmy was 18 months old, he heard his father coming up the front steps as he did every day after work. Timmy turned to his mother and distinctly said, "Da come"

In stringing these two words together, Timmy took a giant step in his language development. Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Obsessive-compulsive disorder appears to be linked to the area of the brain called the __________________. The implications of this finding are that__________________.

a. orbital frontal cortex; although the disorder is related to a particular brain circuit, the causes of the disorder are not necessarily completely biological b. orbital frontal cortex; the disorder is probably due only to brain damage in this area c. occipital lobe; although the disorder is related to a particular brain circuit, the disorder causes the abnormalities in the brain d. occipital lobe; the disorder is most likely due to purely psychological causes

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