According to Ryckman, the theories covered in the text:
a. have contributed very little to our understanding of personality functioning
b. are all parsimonious and comprehensive
c. have all made contributions to our understanding of personality functioning
d. are all empirically valid
c
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In the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study of over 5,000 families, behavioral and cognitive difficulties in children were more likely to occur in single and cohabiting families than in married families. The children's difficulties were associated with certain characteristics of the single and cohabiting families, such as __________.
A. a close and supportive relationship between the parent and a significant other that excluded the child B. instability in the family arrangement, such as changes from single to cohabiting or vice versa C. child mental health problems but not parental mental health problems D. the income of the mother but not the income of contributing fathers
Patricia Devine (1989) argues that even though we all hold _______ stereotypes, _______ can influence whether we believe and act on them.
A) automatically activated; controlled processing B) gender; interacting with others C) simple; complex contradictory information D) negative; experience E) specific; our moods
The interactionist perspective concerning language acquisition is most like the position taken by
a. Piaget. b. Bandura. c. Chomsky. d. Skinner.
According to the opponent process theory of color vision, if light stimulates a red
photoreceptor, then the __________ ganglion cells will __________ their rate of firing. a. red/green; increase b. red/green; decrease c. red/yellow; increase d. red/yellow; decrease e. yellow/blue; increase