Jamil is out of sand and salt to use on his icy driveway. The 10 pounds of birdseed he has in his garage would be a good substitute, but he doesn't consider that possibility. Jamil's thinking illustrates:
a. the availability heuristic
b. a framing effect
c. means-ends analysis
d. functional fixedness
D
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Abena is an adolescent girl who lives in an impoverished area of Africa. She has led a life of malnutrition and contracted several infectious diseases in her childhood. She has very little fat stores in her body as a result of her experiences. Based on what we know about pubertal timing, when will Abena experience menarche?
A. very early, about age 9 B. early, about age 11 C. at an average time point for adolescent girls, about age 13 D. late, about age 15
A threat appraisal automatically triggers:
a. parasympathetic division activity c. posttraumatic stress disorder b. frustration d. the fight-flight response
The z score corresponding to a raw score of 120 is _________
a. 1.2 b. 2.0 c. 1.0 d. impossible to compute from the information given
Evolutionary developmental psychologists seek to understand the entire __________ system
A) ecological B) social–cultural C) organism–environment D) genetic