Adaptation

What will be an ideal response?


using assimilation and accommodation to deal with new information

Psychology

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Research on second-borns shows that they are:

a. higher than first-borns in self-esteem. b. more influenced by their older siblings than by parents. c. less easy-going than first-borns. d. more affected by abandonment than last-borns.

Psychology

A skewed distribution typically has _____ tail(s) and a normal distribution has ____ tail(s)

a. 1; 1 c. 2; 1 b. 1; 2 d. 2; 2

Psychology

Lady Macbeth was burdened with intense guilt after her part in the murder of Duncan. As a result, she washed her hands over and over again, trying to remove the blood she thought she saw on them. Psychologists would call Lady Macbeth's hand-washing:

A. a symbolic release B. dramatic irony C. an obsession D. a compulsion

Psychology

According to the parallel distributed processing approach to semantic memory,

a. concepts are linked together in a chain, and activation can move down that chain while we are thinking about this concept. b. several patterns of activation can proceed at the same time. c. when we think about a particular concept, the nonprototypes are activated at the exact same time as the prototypes. d. each concept is associated with 10 to 12 stable attributes that do not change.

Psychology