The drop in self-esteem often found when children first enter middle school appears to be due to
a. the acquisition of concrete operational thinking.
b. the illusion of invulnerability
c. changes in ethnic identity.
d. peer comparisons.
d
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Researchers concentrating on core beliefs and the predatory strategy are characteristic of which perspective on antisocial personality disorder?
a. psychodynamic c. learning b. cognitive d. social
As Marta listens to her instructor during psychology class, she tries to relate these new facts, terms, and concepts to her own experiences and to information she already knows well. Thus, Marta is making these new ideas more personally meaningful and easier to remember by using the practice of
a. egocentrism. b. self-reference. c. transference. d. self-projection.
According to Freud, the __________ acts as our conscience
a) id b) superego c) ego d) collective unconscious
This is the mistaken belief that the p value associated with our obtained statistic reflects the probability that H0 is true.
a. inverse probability error b. reverse probability error c. inverse significance value d. inverse hypothesis error