In our culture, it is deemed good for people to be friendly,
outgoing, and upstanding, while in other cultures being fierce, warlike, and cruel are deemed favorable. These differences illustrate how different cultures assess
a. temperament.
b. personality.
c. character.
d. superego.
ANSWER: c
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a. lateral shrinkage b. product affinity c. personal use shrinkage d. the mere ownership effect
________ processing is when perception begins with bits and pieces of information that, when combined, lead to the recognition of a whole pattern.
A. Constructive B. Side-to-side C. Top-down D. Bottom-up
The part of the treatment plan for dissociative identity disorder that is similar to the treatment plan for posttraumatic stress disorder is a. integration of personality fragments through psychoanalysis
b. use of antipsychotic medications. c. reliving and reprocessing the trauma, similar to treatments for PTSD. d. hypnotic regression to early life experiences.
According to Freud, the ego operates on:
a. the pleasure principle b. the idealistic principle c. the reality principle d. the sublimation principle