What is the developmental sequence for peak intensity of the two common fears of infancy?
a. Stranger anxiety and separation anxiety both peak early, prior to the age of six months.
b. Stranger anxiety peaks earlier than separation anxiety.
c. Separation anxiety peaks earlier than stranger anxiety.
d. Both anxieties peak late, after the age of 24 months.
B
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All of the following are aspects of the due process model of performance appraisal except
a. adequate notice. b. fair hearing. c. integrity tests. d. evidence of job performance.
While trying to understand why his female patients had profound physical symptoms in the absence of physical causes, Freud "discovered" the notion of:
a. the latency stage c. unconscious forces b. the superego d. manifest content
Studies of familiarity preference show that infants
A) look longer at the features of a familiar person than the action in which the person is engaged. B) are better at discriminating faces in static displays than in moving displays. C) retain information much longer in operant conditioning studies than in habituation studies. D) look longer at a familiar action than the features of the person engaging in the action.
Learned helplessness theories in humans have produced only small effects. One reason for this result may be due to ______.
A. ethical issues associated with exposing human subjects to severe aversive events B. shock in humans is not as aversive as it is within animal subjects C. humans have more cognitive processing and are more immune to learned helplessness D. humans have alternative escape mechanisms that are different from animals