What is the empathy-altruism hypothesis?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer:
Some helpful acts are motivated by one person feeling empathy for a person in need and this alone motivates them to help someone. For example, seeing a panicked parent who has lost sight of their child might generate sufficient empathy that a person will help the parent look for the child.
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Describe the process of social comparison, and apply it to a child who wants to evaluate her intellectual and social abilities.
What will be an ideal response?
What group of neurotransmitters has been implicated in mood disorders, according to the textbook?
A. tetracyclics B. phenothiazines C. monoamines D. biamines
As used by Freud, the unconscious refers to
a. those things we choose to forget. b. the area of the mind that lies outside of personal awareness. c. the tip, or smallest area, of the iceberg. d. all of these.
Creative people habituate
a. more slowly than average. b. more rapidly than average. c. more often during creative production. d. to unfamiliar stimuli.