One of the major psychological defenses we use against emotional threats involves an unconscious forgetting known as
a. repression.
b. suppression.
c. redintegration.
d. elaborative processing.
A
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a. causal mechanisms. b. biological features. c. descriptive features. d. theoretical relatedness.
Cosmo is walking home on a busy downtown street when he notices a woman lying on the sidewalk who appears to have lost consciousness. Which obstacle to helping would best explain why he did not interpret the event as an emergency?
a. audience inhibition b. pluralistic ignorance c. diffusion of responsibility d. empathetic altruism
Which 25-year-old is most likely to move back home with his or her parent?
a. A female with a college GPA of 2.5 b. A male with a college GPA of 2.5 c. A female with a college GPA of 3.5 d. A male with a college GPA of 3.5
In one study in which the brains of adolescents were scanned while playing Wheel of Fortune found that:
A) adolescents making riskier decisions had less brain activity in the prefrontal cortex. B) adolescents making riskier decisions had more brain activity in the prefrontal cortex. C) adolescents making less risky decisions had no brain activity in the prefrontal cortex. D) adolescents making less risky decisions had less brain activity in the prefrontal cortex.