What is the recidivism rate (frequency of those who eventually resume the habit) for smokers who quit?
a. almost all quitters resume the habit
b. few ex-smokers smoke again
c. about 50 percent return to smoking
d. it varies by age, length of the habit, etc.
C
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A) bystander effect B) sole-witness effect C) subtle aggressive effect D) antisocial behaviour effect
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Dynamic psychology was Woodworth’s attempt to define psychology as an eclectic discipline of activity and thought ____
a. that could not be approached by any single methodology b. that was best approached through a functionalist orientation c. that was best approached through a structuralist orientation d. that could be approached primarily through laboratory experimentation
One reason that the psychoanalytic perspective is no longer in the mainstream of child development research is because
A) many psychoanalytic ideas, such as ego functioning, are too vague to be tested empirically. B) psychoanalytic theorists accept the clinical method in which age-related averages represent typical development. C) modern researchers have demonstrated that personality development does not take place in stages. D) it failed to consider the early parent–child relationship, which is central to modern theories.