People who are continually searching for others whom they can admire for their beauty, intelligence, or moral stature are called:
a. mirror-hungry personalities
b. superego personalities
c. ideal-hungry personalities
d. narcissism-hungry personalities
c
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Research on infants raised in deprived institutions in Romania found that
a. early experiences had little impact on later development. b. a lack of physical contact can lead to significant delays in cognitive, physical, and socioemotional development. c. the longer a child is in the deprived environment, the less the negative impact of the experience (as the child will acclimate to the deprivation). d. the impact of the deprivation is directly related to the biological parents' level of intellect (i.e., IQ).
Extinction is best described as an example of
A. forgetting. B. reconsolidation. C. generation. D. learning.
Why is the concept of reciprocal altruism fundamentally paradoxical?
a. Because altruistic behavior – true altruistic behavior – has been found by research to be nonexistent since there is no action without a desire for reward. b. Because the concept of expecting to be repaid for an altruistic action negates the altruistic characteristic of the action in the first place. c. Because it is not possible for altruistic behaviors to be bidirectional. They can only go from one person to another, and cannot be "repaid." d. Because the human animal is incapable of engaging in distinctly cooperative behavior; research suggests that egoism is the norm for all actions.
The six steps of the scientific method include observation,
defining a problem, proposing a hypothesis, testing the hypothesis, publishing the results, and a. cost-benefit analysis. b. anecdotal analysis. c. theory building. d. consensus review.