Analyzing our problems by detaching ourselves from them and talking about them as if they are not concerns to us, but other people, is called ________
a. projection
b. sublimation
c. regression
d. intellectualization
Answer: d
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Which of the following is the best evidence supporting the role of emotion in decision making?
A. Individuals with brain injury resulting in loss of emotion have difficulty in making even simple decisions. B. Individuals with brain injury resulting in loss of emotion have difficulty in making complex decisions. C. Individuals with brain injury resulting in loss of emotion appear to make decisions more quickly and efficiently. D. When individuals focus on their emotional state, their decisions tend to be better.
Kuhn and Pease (2008) trained fourth graders in scientific problem-solving using earthquake and avalanche forecasting programs in fourth through sixth grade. One of their key findings was that
a. trained sixth graders were still not as good as untrained seventh graders at justifying a scientific theory with evidence. b. trained sixth graders were about the same as untrained seventh graders at justifying a scientific theory with evidence. c. trained sixth graders were better than untrained seventh graders at justifying a scientific theory with evidence. d. the children showed little improvement in scientific problem-solving over the three-year period, supporting Inhelder and Piaget’s argument that formal operational thinking is not found until adolescence.
In a recent large, diverse survey of college and noncollege young adults between the ages of 18 and 35, ____ reported feeling “somewhat like an adult.”
a. ?56% b. ?66% c. ?76% d. ?86%
What kind of attachment, according to Ainsworth, is shown by a baby who clings to his or her mother, gets upset when the mother leaves, and demands to be picked up but at the same time kicks and pushes her away?
a. secure b. avoidant c. ambivalent d. disorganized–disoriented