Thomas clung to his mother's leg when a stranger walked into the house. His mother looked down and asked Thomas to introduce himself. In a very quiet voice, he whispered his name. According to Kagan and colleagues, Thomas's behavior indicates __________.
A. externalizing problems
B. behavioral inhibition
C. autism spectrum disorder
D. an uninhibited child
Answer: B
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A. the experience has been recorded in a part of the mind not accessible to consciousness. B. participants do what they think they are supposed to do. C. participants have not been given an adequate incentive to report the experience. D. participants do not record the experience anywhere in memory.
If a person is fixated during the later part of the first psychosexual stage, he or she will develop an __________ personality
a. anal-retentive b. oral-aggressive c. anal-expulsive d. oral-dependent
A major strength of the longitudinal design is that researchers can __________
A) examine relationships between early and later behaviors B) collect a large amount of data in a short time span C) explore similarities among children of different cohorts D) study participants differing in age at the same point in time
After a freak boating accident, Arlo's hippocampus was lost at sea. Although he has recovered in all other respects, Arlo will have difficulty
A. forming new memories of events after the accident. B. speaking fluently in his native language. C. making controlled, purposeful movements. D. smiling.