A young man dreams of pulling a pistol from his waistband and aiming at a target, while his wife watches. The pistol repeatedly fails to discharge, and the man's wife laughs at him. A Freudian psychoanalyst might see the symbolic meaning of this dream to mean that the young man is suffering from repressed feelings of sexual impotence. This symbolic meaning of a dream is known as __________

content.

a. transference
b. lucid
c. manifest
d. latent


D

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1. Piaget emphasized the role of cultural factors in his theory of cognitive development. 2. Vygotsky considered language and numerical systems as cultural tools that influenced cognitive development. 3. The language spoken by children's families impacts their ability to count beyond the number 10. 4. If an adult model closes her eyes and turns her head in the direction of an object, a 3-month-old infant seated across from the model probably will look at the object. 5. An 18-month-old infant can recognize and imitate the intended behaviour of an adult model.

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In normal female rats, release of dopamine in the medial preoptic area activity is primed by ____.

A. serotonin B. testosterone C. a combination of testosterone and estrogen D. estradiol

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A multielement design:

a. may be similar to the ABAB reversal design. b. includes many reversals, which may be fast paced. c. is best suited to effects that are short-lived. d. all of these

Psychology

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Indicate whether this statement is true or false.

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