According to the drive-reduction theory, what are drives and needs?

What will be an ideal response?


Psychology

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In the context of measurement of personality, which of the following statements is true?

A) The reliability of tests is usually assessed by comparing test results to external criteria or standards. B) A reliable IQ test does not usually provide scores during childhood that remain reasonably similar in adolescence and adulthood. C) The intellectual functioning of an individual cannot be assessed without relating it to other people in the same age group. D) The validity of personality tests cannot be assessed by comparing test results to external criteria or standards.

Psychology

Alonzo is with a large group of students who are drinking and celebrating Halloween at a street party. Which of the following will make it more likely that Alonzo will experience deindividuation?

A. He thinks about the morality and consequences of his behavior. B. He believes he cannot be held personally accountable for his behavior. C. He knows most of the people in the group. D. He concentrates on his own internal feelings, rather than on external cues.

Psychology

Robert Hooke did not agree with Newton’s ____

a. hypotheses about gravity b. corpuscular theory of light c. correction for the chromatic aberration flaw in the telescopes of the day d. theory on planetary mechanics

Psychology

Steve is extremely uptight and compulsively neat and orderly. According to Freudian theory, he became fixated at the ________ stage of psychosexual development

a. oral b. anal c. latency d. genital e. phallic

Psychology