By third grade, most school-age children justify their preference for verbal strategies for coping with negative emotion by
A) mentioning avoidance of punishment.
B) mentioning avoidance of embarrassment.
C) emphasizing concern for others' feelings.
D) mentioning adult approval.
C
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What is the best example of overregularization?
a. Saying "horse" instead of "hose" b. Saying "houses" instead of "homes" c. Saying "flunked" instead of "failed" d. Saying "runned" instead of "ran"
A psychologist speculates that leaders in the business world are motivated by a sense of inadequacy. She argues that business executives need to make big deals and rise to the top of the corporate ladder to overcome feelings that they are less worthy than others. Which of the following is probably most compatible with her ideas?
A. Freud's theory of personality B. Adler's theory of personality C. Research on need for Achievement D. Research on Type A people
You have quit smoking and now want to keep from "falling back" into this old habit. To maintain the "new non-smoking you," you imagine someone offering you a cigarette, and you politely turning them down. This image is followed by imagining a pleasant, rewarding scene of yourself being told by the doctor that you are now so healthy that you should live to a ripe old age. You have just used the
technique known as a. thought stopping. b. covert sensitization. c. desensitization. d. covert reinforcement.
Cognitive development theory assumes that ____
a. cognitive mechanisms organize our world b. children see models of the "appropriate" ways for their genders to behave in their books, on television, and when interacting with others c. all children go through a universal pattern of development, and there really is not much parents can do to alter it d. children learn to model their behavior after the same-gender parent to win parental approval