Jimmy believes he was born into the wrong sex. He has known all his life that he should have been a girl, and when he was able to, he began dressing like a woman and eventually plans to get gender reassignment surgery to make his body more feminine. Jimmy therefore is ______.
A. heterosexual
B. homosexual
C. bisexual
D. transsexual
Answer: D
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a. is typically greater in the research on encoding than in the research on autobiographical memory. b. is relatively strong when the research examines the correspondence between a real-life event and the memory of the event. c. is more likely in the research on implicit memory than in the research on explicit memory. d. is a concept that was strongly emphasized in the early history of cognitive psychology, but it is now considered relatively unimportant.
Which mental health professional's activities includes visiting patients' homes, evaluating patients and their families, and conducting group psychotherapy?
a. psychiatrist b. psychoanalyst c. psychiatric social worker d. comparative psychologist
Vygotsky believed that the main source of development is
a. culture. c. biology. b. evolution. d. the environment.
Why is it difficult to evaluate the long-term benefits of the Head Start program in a scientific way?
a. because it is not representative of the entire American population b. because it is funded at public expense c. because it is difficult to keep track of the children who were involved with it d. because it was not set up as an experiment