According to your text, one of the reasons that concepts such as motivation are arbitrary is that:
a. Motivations are different for animals and humans.
b. Motivations differ across cultures.
c. Motivations change from day to day.
d. Motivation sometimes cannot be distinguished from other behaviors, such as emotions.
D
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A psychologist who sees a client's problems as caused by a lack of useful, productive behaviors and lack of consequences following inappropriate actions probably supports which model of psychopathology?
a. existential c. behavioral b. psychodynamic d. humanistic
Taylor and Madison are 2-year-old identical twins. Taylor's grammar and vocabulary are much more developed than Madison's. Which of the following would most likely explain this difference?
Taylor has a genetic predisposition to accelerated language development. Taylor frequently sings when reading, while Madison prefers to read silently to herself. Taylor is being exposed to more language interaction than is Madison. Madison probably has a cleft palate.
With the exception of movements which involve contact with someone else, all bodily movements are referred to as:
a. paralanguage b. proxemics c. haptics d. kinesics e. propinquity
When Charna was a preschooler, her father was always yelling at her mother and breaking things. Her mom noticed that Charna began hanging on the sidelines when playing with other children and became uncharacteristically quiet at meals when the family gathered. Karen Horney might describe this behavior as symptomatic of:
A. intrapsychic conflict. B. instinctual self-preservation. C. fear of her father's anger. D. basic anxiety.