Jamelis has figured out that his mother will be furious with him if he comes home after dinner time, so he has started making sure never to be that late. Jamelis is demonstrating
A. reflexes.
B. instincts.
C. fixed action patterns.
D. learned behaviors.
Answer: D
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a. emotional competence. b. emotional regulation. c. social referencing. d. emotional intelligence.
A study by Larson and associates (1996) found that the amount of time teens spent alone with parents
a. varied radically across grades. b. peaked in 12th grade. c. peaked in 10th grade. d. was fairly constant across grades.
The body's internal "master clock" is a. the pons
b. the occipital cortex. c. the thalamus d. the suprachiasmatic nucleus.
The effectiveness of Valium (or benzodiazepines) in treating GAD supports the hypothesis that
a. a serotonin deficiency underlies GAD. b. heightened autonomic arousal causes the anxiety of those with GAD. c. a GABA deficiency underlies GAD. d. anxiety increases noradrenergic activity.