Which term describes the effort to understand personality by identifying general laws that govern the behavior of individuals?
A. environmental approach
B. idiographic approach
C. nomothetic approach
D. correlation approach
C. nomothetic approach
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A. 50,000 B. 100,000 C. 200,000 D. 500,000
Carrie has just begun to crawl. About what age is Carrie?
A. Two months old B. Six months old C. Nine months old D. Twelve months old
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a. he now needs to take a larger dose in order to fall asleep because sedatives become less effective over time. b. he can take less of the drug because the effects of sedatives tend to be cumulative. c. he will spend more of the night dreaming than he did without the sedative. d. after two weeks, his insomnia should be cured, and he can stop using the sedative.
Jason is looking down at the tiny vent holes on his laptop computer, and notices how dusty they have become. When blowing on the holes does not clear the dust from them, he takes a paper clip and unbends it. He then uses the straight ends to clear the dust from each of the vent holes. Although this takes a bit of time, he is pleased with the overall result. Jason’s ability to look at the paper
clip and see something other than holding papers together illustrates that he has overcome _____. a. ?algorithmic paralysis b. ?functional fixedness c. ?the availability heuristic d. ?irrelevant information bias