Jason, a 16-year-old boy, gets injured when he gets caught in a rip current while holidaying. His spinal cord gets damaged, and he becomes paralyzed. With the support of his family, he returns to a near normal way of living with occasional bouts of sadness or frustration. In this scenario, Jason exhibits ________ in this scenario.
A. the adaptation-level phenomenon
B. social comparison
C. the pleasure paradox state
D. relative deprivation
Answer: A
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a. be unable to accurately identify why he acted as he did. b. become penitent in the face of his mother's anger. c. be able to answer his mother's question honestly and accurately. d. become aggressive toward his mother's confrontation.
Unlike other graphs, ______ displays a data point for each individual in the data set with one measured variable on the x-axis and another measured variable on the y-axis.
A. line graph B. pie chart C. bar graph D. scatterplot
Although antidepressants are effective in treating major depression, they are not usually prescribed for the treatment of this related disorder.
A. Schizophrenia B. Bipolar disorder C. Dissociative identity disorder D. Antisocial personality disorder E. Obsessive-compulsive disorder
The primary psychoactive agent in marijuana is __________
a. THC b. AMP c. cannabidiol d. cannabinol