What is an instinct?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: It is an inborn behavior; sometimes called species specific behavior
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Which of the following would be considered an open-ended question that might start a conversation?
a. "Have you ever been to Canada?" b. "What types of music do you like to listen to?" c. "Do you like living in a small town?" d. "Do you like Mexican food?"
According to Freud, which part of the personality is made up of innate biological instincts and urges and is self-serving, impulsive, and irrational?
a. ego b. id c. superego d. real self
Many of an infant's inborn reflexes, such as rooting, sucking, and grasping, have an endearing quality because
a. they are the building blocks of motor behavior. b. parents interpret these behaviors to suggest that their infants enjoy being close to them. c. they are a reminder of our own infancy. d. they are automatic.
A controlled test of a hypothesis, in which the researcher manipulates one variable in order to discover its effect on another variable, is called a(n) _______
a. correlational study. b. experiment. c. survey. d. single-blind study.