What, according to the social-psychological point of view, is inherited about aggression?
a. nothing; aggression is completely learned from one's parents, peers, and culture
b. a tendency to respond to provocation against an aggressor, which can be overridden
c. fixed action patterns of responding to certain "trigger" cues
d. patterns of threat and attack in response to challenge
Answer: B
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How does postformal thought fundamentally differ from Piaget's notion of formal operations?
A. Postformal thought is a developmental period that precedes formal operations. B. Postformal thought is based on culturally shared definitions of "truth" and "wisdom." C. Postformal thought acknowledges that sometimes there are no clearly right or wrong solutions to a problem. D. Postformal reasoning leads to a single identifiable solution.
As people learn new things throughout life, dendrites grow and new synapses are formed. This is due to
parasympathetic division. | ||
neurogenesis. | ||
sympathetic division. | ||
neuroplasticity. |
Unlike the case study, the single-participant experiment ____
a. cannot determine cause-and-effect relationships b. is based on the nomothetic research orientation c. is better able to assess cause-and-effect relationships d. is a correlational design
Laughter reflects __________
A) increased sensitivity to object permanence B) sensitivity to the human face C) an infant’s capacity to respond to passive stimuli D) faster processing of information than smiling