What was a dependent variable in this study?
(a) whether the learning was alone or in front of an audience
(b) the number of trials it took for the subjects to learn
(c) the list of nonsense syllables
(d) the difficulty of the list of nonsense syllables
(e) none of the above
B
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What can you tell the Senator about the long-term effects of popularity and rejection on later development? What will be an ideal response?
Psychoanalytic theories emphasize that development is all of the following EXCEPT
A. primarily unconscious. B. primarily related to observable behavior. C. heavily colored by emotions. D. shaped by early experiences with parents.
The ego-protective defense mechanism in which traumatic events are pushed into the unconscious is called
A) depression.
B) reaction formation.
C) repression.
D) projection.
E) none of these.