State the difference between emotion and mood

What will be an ideal response?


Answer: Emotions refer to relatively brief episodes of synchronized responses that indicate the evaluation of an internal or external event as significant, whereas moods refer to diffuse affective states (low intensity and long duration) of subjective feeling.

Psychology

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Social cognitive theorists would endorse which type of explanation for a gay or lesbian sexual orientation?

a. Sexual orientation runs in families. b. Sexual orientation is related to the phallic stage of development. c. Sexual orientation is affected by observations of others in male-male or female-female sexual encounters. d. Sexual orientation is determined by sex hormones.

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When compared to childhood, Allport believed adulthood is:

a. controlled by the life and death instincts. b. ruled by primitive biological urges and reflexes. c. characterized by a stronger ego. d. unconstrained by past experiences.

Psychology

Describe how the internet has been both helpful and a hindrance in cases of eating disorders.

What will be an ideal response?

Psychology

Tables are preferred for presenting information that is _____

a. dense and difficult to follow c. simple and purely inferential b. simple and purely descriptive d. group means

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