Someone insults you and you spend the next two hours imagining the things you could have (or should have) said to humiliate them. According to Freud, you are engaging in

a. wish fulfillment c. transference
b. abreaction d. free association


A

Psychology

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Which statement is correct regarding how bias can be introduced when research findings are communicated?

a. Gender similarities tend to be underrepresented in publications. b. Journal editors usually prefer to publish studies that demonstrate gender similarities on a particular characteristic. c. The popular press and introductory psychology textbooks typically prefer to emphasize studies in which women perform better than men. d. The popular media usually emphasize social constructionism.

Psychology

When an individual's specific symptoms are matched to those that define a particular mental disorder, ____ takes place

a. personality assessment c. psychoanalysis b. clinical diagnosis d. axis construction

Psychology

According to the text, emerging adulthood begins in the age decade of _______

a. the 20s b. the 30s c. the 40s d. the 50s

Psychology

The brain's ability to change and adapt in response to experience, through neurogenesis, or by reorganizing or growing new neural connections, is called:

a. constructivism. b. proliferation. c. optimization. d. plasticity.

Psychology