The development of Kinsey's Heterosexual-Homosexual Rating Scale was an attempt to
A. represent a proportion of an individual's sexual behaviors with the same or other sex.
B. classify sexual behaviors in terms of their normality and abnormality.
C. measure the frequency of autoerotic behavior among subjects of different ages.
D. evaluate the masculinity and femininity of Kinsey's subjects.
Answer: A
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a. There is no relationship between height as an infant and height as an adult. b. There is an almost perfect relationship between height as an infant and height as an adult. c. Long infants always grow up to be tall adults. d. There may be a relationship between an infant's height and their height as an adult.
Qadir visits a therapist for advice on how to reduce the stress that sometimes overwhelms him because he is wasting time stuck in traffic or waiting in line. The therapist tells him that understanding the concept of cognitive appraisal will help him lower his stress level. In particular, she advises that when he finds himself in these situations, he should try to:
A. change his initial appraisal so that he thinks of the event as positive instead of stressful. B. accept that the event is stressful and focus on finding positive ways to cope with it. C. change his routes and routines so that he doesn't experience the specific stressors as often. D. accept that he has no control over the events at all and so the stressors are actually irrelevant.
By 10 years of age, most children are able to use cognitive strategies to manage stress. In which of the following types of families would children BEST cope with stress?
A. families that often experience frightening events B. families that often experience trauma C. families that experience several disasters D. families that reassure children of their safety and security
Mr. Moss is the head coach of the high school football team. He notices that, after learning the names of the players on the team this year, he has trouble remembering the names of the players from the previous year. In fact, he sometimes says the name of a current player when he is referring to a player from the previous year. This is an example of
a. retroactive interference. b. proactive interference. c. decay. d. cue-dependent forgetting