Which of the following is NOT one of the four critical situations that Dollard and Miller believed to be capable of leaving a lasting imprint on personality?
a. sex training
b. language skills
c. feeding
d. toilet training
B
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Celia, who is a college student, has always thought of herself as an environmental activist. Recently, she "inherited" a gas-guzzling car from her parents, which she has been driving around campus. To reduce the cognitive dissonance that she feels from these clashing images of herself, the environmental activist and the gas-guzzling car owner, she might decide that she will only use the car when
it is impossible to bike or take the bus," which illustrates the strategy of a. changing her attitude. b. changing her behavior. c. adding consonant thoughts. d. reducing the amount of her perceived choice.
The manifest content of a text is
a. found by objective measure b. found by subjective interpretation c. a less reliable measure than its latent content d. is always preferable to latent content analysis
Young Eli, only a bit over 18 months of age, has been fooled by
his parents. In order to get him to willingly take a children's chewable vitamin every day, his parents have taught him that it is a "candy." Now, whenever Eli sees any product that is small and brightly colored, he says "Candy! YUMMM!" and tries to put it into his mouth. Eli's attempt to make new stimuli consistent with his existing mental structures is an example of _____. A) centration B) egocentrism C) accommodation D) assimilation
A shared idea or expectation of how one should behave in various situations is called a ________
a. cultural assimilator b. cultural truism c. norm d. folkway