Young children's thought is informed by the assumption of ____________, the belief that anything that exists is made by a conscious entity
A. centration
B. artificialism
C. egocentrism
D. irreversibility
C. egocentrism
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If Gina reacts to the stress of missing the bus on her way to work by first determining how important it is that she arrives at work on time, then examining her resources to see if she can cope with the stress of not going to work, she would be demonstrating the stress theory:
a. Tend-and-Befriend c. Cognitive Appraisal b. General Adaptation Syndrome d. Fight-or-Flight
To investigate the role of genetic factors in personality, researchers administered the MMPI to pairs of identical twins who had been reared apart and pairs of nonidentical twins who had been reared together. Imagine that these researchers found that the nonidentical twins reared together were more similar on a given trait than the identical twins reared apart. This would be evidence that:
a. genetics has a larger influence than the environment on the expression of that particular trait b. genetics and the environment are equally influential on the expression of that particular trait c. neither genetics nor the environment influences the expression of that particular trait d. the environment has a larger influence than genetics on the expression of that particular trait
What term do psychologists use for placing the goals of the group above personal goals?
a) collectivism b) ethnocentrism c) deindividuation d) individualism
A ________ is a peer group of between 2 and 12 persons whose members have frequent social interactions with one another
Fill in the blank with the appropriate word.