Mary Rothbart considers the traits of focused attention, inhibitory control, low-intensity pleasure, and perceptual sensitivity to be aspects of the temperamental dimension she calls _______.
a. energy
b. competitiveness
c. effortful control
d. inhibition
c. effortful control
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When groupthink occurs in a committee discussion, what is the result?
a. The committee rejects its first decision and decides on the opposite. b. The committee reaches a well-informed decision. c. The committee breaks into opposing groups that cannot compromise. d. The committee suppresses questions and doubts about its decision.
Suppose that Peter hates his job as a medical assistant. Research on the panic button effect would suggest that Peter would hate his job less if ____
a. he felt that could quit at any time and get a different job b. he thought about how much unhappier he would be if he lost his job and became homeless c. he considered how much his job helped to relieve people's stress and discomfort d. he thought about how he would feel if he were rushed to the hospital and there was no one there to help him
The school of psychology that places unconscious impulses and desires at the center of human behavior is
a. psychoanalysis. c. functionalism. b. structuralism d. Gestalt psychology.
To support hypotheses on breast-feeding that have been generated from archaeological and historical evidence, researchers have also examined ____
a. modern cultural practices in Southeast Asia b. modern hunter-gatherer cultures in Central Africa c. historic zoological records in Central America d. historic volcanic records in mainland China