"Nature" refers to
a) traits, abilities and capacities inherited from parents.
b) biological forces within the environment that affect change.
c) how people's growth and change is affected at the cellular level.
d) socioeconomic surroundings that affect people's growth and change.
a
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When Peggy went to the baseball game she quickly separated the fans into the "home crowd" (wearing mostly red), and the "visitors" (wearing mostly blue), even though the fans were fairly evenly dispersed throughout the stadium. Peggy's perception of the crowd illustrates the Gestalt principle of:
a. figure ground b. closure c. common fate d. similarity
Kayla is presenting a business plan to her bank, hoping to get a loan. As her stress levels increase, it is likely that her performance will a. continue to increase
b. become steadily worse. c. decrease at first, but after her stress reaches a certain point, she will overcome it enough to improve. d. increase at first, but after her stress reaches a certain point, she will begin to perform more poorly.
Discuss treatment of the mentally ill. Include "shock therapies," psychosurgical procedures, and antipsychotic medications.
What will be an ideal response?
Your child fears going to the doctor because on her last visit she received a painful treatment. Now every time your child visits the doctor the nurse is with him. You notice the child seems afraid of the nurse even though she has never administered a painful treatment. What is this probably due to?
a. higher-order conditioning c. stimulus discrimination b. stimulus overload d. response generalization