Examples of psychological risk factors cited in your textbook include:
A. whether the parent was physically abused as a child
B. the quality of attachment between child and parent
C. how parents respond effectively to stressful situations
D. engaging in risk-taking behaviors
Answer: D
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In a famous speech given in 1926, John B. Watson made the following claim:
Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I’ll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select—a doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief, and yes, even into beggarman and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors. Place this statement in historical perspective. Do you agree or disagree? Explain your reasoning. What will be an ideal response?
One change in mental activity that occurs during early adolescence is that young people are able to
a. consciously experience changes in the brain. b. generate perceptions based on fantasy principles. c. generate hypotheses about events they have never perceived. d. use motor behavior as the basis of planning activity.
The tendency to attribute behavior to internal, stable characteristics is called:
a. naive psychology b. nonnormative attribution c. the fundamental attribution error d. psychological error attribution
John's heart has been conditioned to beat rapidly whenever he smells Windsong perfume on a woman. However, John's heart also races when he smells Chanel #5 and other perfumes. This illustrates:
a. stimulus generalization. b. discrimination. c. extinction. d. spontaneous recovery.