Saying "I earned an A on my psychology test" vs. "My instructor gave me a C on my psychology test" exemplifies how we associate ourselves with
A. failure and distance ourselves from success
B. success and distance ourselves from failure
C. rewards and distance ourselves from punishment
D. punishment and distance ourselves from rewards
Answer: B. success and distance ourselves from failure
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a. A mother usually does not feel attached to her baby until the baby is around two months old. b. For the first couple of months, babies respond more or less equally to everyone. c. By two or three months, most babies prefer their mothers to strangers. d. By around seven months, babies generally become truly attached to their mothers, crawling after her if they can.
Classical conditioning is generally strongest when the neutral stimulus is presented ____ the unconditioned stimulus by a few ____
a. ?before; seconds b. ?after; minutes c. ?before; minutes d. ?after; seconds
According to the information-processing model of memory, if a person completely loses the ability for __________ memory, which is the first level of memory storage, the person will not be able to form any memories of any kind.
A. short-term B. sensory C. semantic D. long-term
Our self-concept makes use of our ability to know ______.
a. neighbor's thoughts b. our gender behaviors c. who we are d. our previous experience