The question "When will it happen again?" refers to which of the following goals in psychology?
a) description
b) explanation
c) prediction
d) control
ANS: C, Prediction deals with anticipating how future events are likely to occur.
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The WAIS-IV uses what two kinds of norms in order to facilitate the comparison of scores on individual subtests?
a. gender and age b. ethnic group and gender c. profession and age-adjusted d. age-adjusted and reference group
Higher levels of sexual prejudice (sometimes called homophobia) are found in people who
a. know someone who is gay. c. are female compared to male. b. are less educated. d. are younger.
Parents rely on different strategies depending on the goals they have in mind. When parents want to quickly resolve a disagreement, they most often use _________. When they wish to teach a child specific values, they tend to use _________
a. reasoning; time-out c. punishment; power assertion b. time-out; punishment d. power assertion; reasoning
During early childhood, emotional self-regulation is considered __________.
A. very unlikely to be accomplished B. one of the major developmental tasks C. not possible until the child completely understands the concept of "self" D. not likely due to the immature development of the frontal lobe areas