What are compulsions?

a. a type of obsession
b. normal feelings of drive
c. intrusive, unwanted thoughts
d. irrational, repetitive behaviors


Answer: d.

Psychology

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a. Ozzie and Harriet, who discourage experimentation in their children b. Ward and June, who encourage conformity in their children c. Kate and Allie, who encourage autonomy in their children d. George and Jane, who strictly enforce unjustified rules

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Evidence from patients with anterograde amnesia suggests that the role of the hippocampus is to a. serve as a storage location for declarative memories

b. serve as a storage location for procedural memories. c. assist in the retrieval of memories stored in other locations. d. transfer information from short-term memory into long-term memory.

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Kelly is equally passionate about the law and psychology. What field might she want to choose that would allow her to pursue both her passions?

a) judicial psychology b) forensic psychology c) organizational psychology d) human-factors psychology

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The tendency to give too much emphasis to personal factors when accounting for other people's actions is called ________

a. the Peter principle b. the fundamental attribution error c. the primacy effect d. defensive attribution

Psychology