Elisabeth is 57 years old. When presented with a difficult situation that is not easily resolved, she is most likely to use
A. engagement coping.
B. avoidance coping.
C. problem-focused coping.
D. emotion-focused coping.
Answer: D
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a. modeling. b. learning sets. c. cognitive mapping. d. punishment.
Maria and Juan recently inherited $100,000. Maria comes from a wealthy family and wants to invest all of the money in a high-yield, but high-risk stock market fund. Juan has always been poor, and he prefers to invest in low-yield, but low-risk,
government guaranteed securities. Such different investment strategies illustrate that ______. a. males and females have different ideas about how to invest money b. males are less adventurous than females where money is concerned c. past experiences and feelings completely control current emotions and needs d. different reactions to a given situation are often based on different cognitive appraisals of the situation
Carl Jung would have agreed that:
a. Darth Vader and dragons represent the shadow archetype. b. the collective unconscious differs for each person. c. human personality is mostly driven by "dark" forces. d. past conflicts provide the only motivation for current behaviors.
A researcher obtained a sample of adolescents and interviewed them about their alcohol use. This is an example of a design
a. cross-sectional survey b. panel survey c. demographic d. successive independent samples survey e. probability