Believing that Spain is a rude country because your Spanish exchange student is rude is one example of
a. overgeneralization.
b. selective abstraction.
c. dichotomous thinking.
d. minimization.
a
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What is one of the limitations in the use of a heritability ratio?
a. It cannot be generalized to the whole population. b. It reflects only theoretically diverse environments. c. Its calculation ignores environmental variance in a sample. d. It can only be used to describe biological characteristics.
Tolman's position on Thorndike's law of effect was to ____.?
a. ?accept it b. ?accept it as long as reward or reinforcement was omitted from the law c. ?reject it d. ?incorporate it into his own purposive behavior theory e. ?None of the choices are correct.
Erikson saw the major challenge of young adulthood as that of
a. intimacy versus isolation b. generativity versus stagnation c. identity versus role confusion d. integrity versus despair e. industry versus inferiority