Jessica scored a hundred on a very difficult science test. To congratulate her, mom surprised her with an afternoon of swimming. This is an example of a (n) _______ reward

a. intrinsic
b. informational
c. control-based
d. mastery


b

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The authors of the text would most likely agree with which of the following statements regarding the development of emotion regulation?

a. Children who master emotion regulation are unlikely to develop anxiety disorders. b. Young children who never master emotion regulation will develop an anxiety disorder in adolescence. c. Emotion regulation is an on-going process that may be linked to the development of an anxiety disorder. d. Poor emotion regulation is most clearly related to the development of OCD.

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Research on the effectiveness of therapy has shown that those receiving therapy ____

a. ?usually end up no better off than those who did not receive therapy b. ?generally end up better off than those who do not receive any form of therapy, but not better off than those taking a placebo c. ?generally end up better off than those taking a placebo, but not better off than those who do not receive any form of therapy d. ?generally end up better off than both those who do not receive therapy and those who take placebos

Psychology

Every time Tim remembered how embarrassed he had been at the party, he immediately thought of something else. He really tried to forget all about the party. Tim was using _____ for the purpose of motivated forgetting

a) suppression b) retrograde amnesia c) proactive amnesia d) repression

Psychology

According to James Marcia, the status of adolescents who commit to a particular identity following a period of crisis during which they consider various alternatives is known as

a. identity achievement. c. moratorium. b. identity foreclosure. d. identity diffusion.

Psychology