The difference between aggression and violence is best described as one of
a. extremity.
b. intent.
c. affect.
d. hostility.
a
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Which of the following does not appear to trigger the production of higher levels of estrogen associated with the initiation of puberty in girls?
a. A certain body weight b. A particular amount of body fat c. The secretion of leptin d. Reaching a specific chronological age
When a psychologist uses scientific observation, these observations must
a. involve logic and commonsense reasoning. b. be conducted using animals rather than humans. c. be carefully planned and able to be confirmed by more than one observer. d. involve all of these.
You are going home one night when you drive through a sobriety checkpoint. The policeman asks you to get out of the car, holds one finger up in front of your face, and asks you to follow his finger with your eyes only. What is he doing? a. He is checking to see if your frontal lobe is functioning properly, which allows you to initiate movement
b. He is checking to see if your caudate nucleus, which coordinates your movements, has been affected by alcohol. c. He is checking to see if your cerebellum is functioning properly because the cerebellum is one of the first areas to be affected by alcohol. d. He is checking to see if you will follow directions because if you are drunk you might not.
While scanning the shelves in a library, you notice a book written in the 1920s. If you opened it up to look for the chapter on motivation, you would be most likely to find that psychologists
a. had not yet discovered the concept of motivation. b. believed that most animal behavior is instinctually motivated, but that human behavior is not. c. had compiled a list of 10,000 human instincts. d. were focusing on the role of expectations in motivating behavior.