According to the chapter You're Driving Me Crazy, why is it relatively rare to find strong correlations when
dealing with human behavior?
(a) behavior is difficult to measure
(b) numbers are usually misleading
(c) many factors influence behavior
(d) people do not answer questions honestly
C
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A __________ is a belief about what characteristics, traits, and activities are appropriate for men and women.
A. gender stereotype B. sex role C. gender role D. sexual orientation
Remembering nonsense syllables is difficult because they are meaningless and require
a. elaborative rehearsal rather than maintenance rehearsal. b. semantic coding rather than acoustic coding. c. acoustic coding and maintenance rehearsal. d. none of these.
The long bundle of neurons that carries messages to and from the body to the brain and is responsible for very fast, lifesaving reflexes is called the __________
a) spinal cord. b) brain. c) reflexes. d) interneurons.
One reason that the psychoanalytic perspective is no longer in the mainstream of child development is because
A) it tells us little about factors that contribute to personality development. B) its theorists were so strongly committed to the clinical approach that they failed to consider other methods. C) contemporary theorists have found that personality development does not take places in stages. D) it fails to recognize the role of the early parent–child relationship in personality development.