According to Thomas and Chess, 40 percent of children display the most common type of temperament, which is the __________ temperament
a. easy
b. difficult
c. slow-to-warm-up
d. generic
A
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The authors of this study proposed that providing greater personal control in old age _____.
A. can help ward off mental decline and senility. B. will make family care of the elderly more challenging. C. is important to psychological health in old age if the control is focused on major life decisions. D. will require a complete overhaul of our current elder-care practices.
Debbie and Jamie have been friends for many years. They know each other well, and even though they both have families and children they make it a point to get together, even just for coffee, at least once or twice a month. According to the developmental model of friendship discussed in your chapter, they are probably in the ____ stage of their friendship
a. maintenance b. continuation c. long-term d. deterioration
A friend of yours asks, "Isn't it easy to tell when a person is faking the symptoms of dissociative identity disorder?" What would be an accurate answer?
a. "No, because there is no way to accurately determine the existence of multiple personalities." b. "Yes, you can give them personality tests, those can't be faked." c. "Yes, diagnosis is usually done after hypnosis, when people are most truthful." d. "Yes, differences in EEG tracing prove who is showing a different personality and who is not."
One Saturday, Adolf was sitting at home when the telephone rang. A local company was making promotional calls and told Adolf he had just won a $1,000 gift certificate. He felt a rush of excitement at the thought of what he could do with $1,000 . Now Adolf finds that whenever he hears a telephone ring, he feels a small surge of excitement. In this example of classical conditioning, the conditioned
stimulus is: a. the ringing of a telephone b. the rush of excitement that Adolf felt when he won the gift certificate c. the news that he had won a $1,000 gift certificate d. the rush of excitement that Adolf feels whenever he hears a ringing telephone