The two common fears of infancy, separation anxiety and stranger anxiety, reflect the baby's preference for

a. easy temperament.
b. familiarity.
c. social referencing.
d. learned helplessness.


B

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Norm rarely understands puns, and he struggles to understand figurative or metaphoric language. More than one friend has suggested that he sometimes says rude or inappropriate things in social situations. Norm has difficulty with the __________ aspect of language, an aspect that may be processed in the brain's __________ hemisphere.

A. pragmatic; left B. pragmatic; right C. semantic; left D. semantic; right

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An important point from the authors' discussion on why people need to care about the dangers of pseudo-psychology is that

a. harm rarely results from pseudopsychological beliefs or treatments. b. a lack of critical thinking may lead to poor decisions that affects one's personal life, including their physical or emotional health. c. people are often quite accurate and unbiased in their day-to-day decision-making. d. quackery and pseudo-psychology are especially easy to detect without exposure to critical thinking or skepticism. e. the more people listen to pseudo-psychology, the more accurate the claims of that pseudo-psychology¬ become.

Psychology

Kendra often has her hair in her hands and pulls at it. When she is nervous, she tends to pull some of it out, which helps her feel better. Most of the time she does not even realize she is doing this. Which diagnosis would Kendra likely receive?

A) body dysmorphic disorder B) trichotillomania C) excoriation D) delusional disorder

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A major advantage of chemical stimulation using glutamate infusion is that __________.

A. it activates cell bodies but not axons B. it only activates neurons in cortex C. it activates axons, but not cell bodies D. dendrites are inactivated by the technique

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