What position does the text take on the question of whether human beings have
"instincts?"
(a) the term used to be used for human beings but it is now clear that there is
no such thing as instinctual behavior in humans
(b) people have instincts but American psychologists attribute everything to
learning
(c) people have 7 basic instincts, out of which grow all complex behaviors
(d) since the word instinct suggests "robot-like" behavior, the authors of the
text say that they avoid applying it to humans
D
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a. Do attributions correspond with pre-existing beliefs? b. Does an individual's beliefs correspond with that individual's behavior? c. Does an observer infer that an actor's behavior is consistent with the actor's personality? d. Does an observer infer that an actor's behavior is consistent with that of the observer?
With respect to a graph of a frequency distribution, a positive deviation score
a. will be located to the right of the mean. b. will be located to the left of the mean. c. cannot be found. d. indicates the raw score's location relative to the median.
The traditional tendency to stigmatize women as "hysterical" derived from Hippocrates' concept of
A. the "wandering womb." B. an "incompetent cervix." C. "penis envy." D. "pelvic dysfunction."
What childhood quality begins to decrease during the middle childhood years?
a. perspective taking c. need for identity b. egocentrism d. ethnocentrism