Which of the following is an example of the phenomenon of costly signaling in action?
a. Making a private donation to a hospital
b. Failing to help because others are around
c. Showing off one's wealth
d. Chasing down a thief who has stolen a stranger's purse
Answer: D
Rationale: Helping others can be risky, but it can also be a way to assert that the individual doing the helping is healthy, capable, and dependable.
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a. retroactive interference b. metamemory repression c. amnesia d. ADHD
Describe both child-centered preschool and kindergarten programs and academic programs. Which type of programming does the research favor for early childhood?
What will be an ideal response?
Martin Seligman developed positive psychology
A) ?in response to criticism from cognitive psychologists. B) ?as a counterweight to the discipline's negatively oriented history. C) ?to make the discipline of psychology more popular among the general public. D) ?as a political strategy designed to appease nonclinical psychologists.
Psychologists are said to "hold the privilege" for communications between themselves and their clients
Indicate whether the statement is true or false