Four-year-old Kevin is in love with his mother, and wants very much to get rid of his father so that he can have his mother all to himself. According to Freud, Kevin is undergoing:
a. a regression.
b. the genital stage.
c. an Oedipus complex.
d. all of the above
c
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A. Most of what people do is abnormal. B. Culture must be considered when evaluating abnormality. C. Kissing the ground is always an abnormal behavior because it is so uncommon. D. Temporal context must be considered when evaluating abnormality.
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a. risk b. significance c. incidence d. prevalence
The nomothetic approach in psychology (or in any science) is intended to establish broad generalizations and universal "laws." When using the nomothetic approach researchers are likely to make
A. many observations of one individual. B. observations of many individuals and focus on extreme scores. C. observations of many individuals and focus on the average (typical) score. D. few observations of a few individuals and focus on the scores that occur most often.