Adolescents in moratorium
A) display a dogmatic, inflexible cognitive style.
B) use a diffuse-avoidant cognitive style.
C) seek out relevant information, evaluate it, and revise their views.
D) fear rejection by people on whom they depend for affection and self-esteem.
C
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The body will respond without any internal conscious intent to some external stimulus. This fact illustrates Descartes' principle of ____.?
a. ?undulatio reflexa b. ?Einfall c. ?cogito ergo sum d. ?esse est percipi e. ?spring action
Which of the following is the order of events that prompts release of neurotransmitters into the synapse?
A. An action potential reaches the axon terminals, vesicles fuse with cell membrane, calcium ions enter the terminals, vesicles fuse with cell membrane, neurotransmitter is released. B. Calcium ions enter the terminals, an action potential reaches the axon terminals, vesicles fuse with cell membrane, neurotransmitter is released. C. Vesicles fuse with cell membrane, an action potential reaches the axon terminals, calcium ions enter the terminals, neurotransmitter is released. D. An action potential reaches the axon terminals, calcium ions enter the terminals, vesicles fuse with cell membrane, neurotransmitter is released.
Andrea had a dream in which she was riding a unicycle toward mountains that reached all the way to the sky and disappeared into clouds shaped like toadstools. Andrea is convinced the dream represents an unconscious desire to quit her current job. According to Freud, the unicycle and toadstool-shaped clouds would represent:
a. the manifest content of Andrea's dream b. an interpretation of random neural activity in the hindbrain c. a psychic premonition of future events d. the latent content of Andrea's dream
Regarding the popular pseudopsychology of astrology, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. If astrologers are asked to match people with their horoscopes, they do significantly better than would be expected by chance. b. Astrologers have failed to scientifically explain why the positions of the planets at birth affect a person's future or why the moment of birth is more important than the moment of conception. c. When the people in a study were sent a full 10-page horoscope of a famous mass murderer, 94 percent accepted it as their own. d. One study of more than 3,000 predictions by famous astrologers found that only a small percentage were fulfilled.