Emme selectively attends to and better recalls emotionally positive over negative information. Emme has the ability to maximize positive emotion and dampen negative emotion. This ability is known as __________
A) gerotranscendence
B) reminiscence
C) ego transcendence
D) the positivity effect
Answer: D
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a. ?critical period in language acquisition b. ?language acquisition device c. social convention d. ?speech spectrograph
Psychologists who include perception, thinking, expectations and mental events with behavioral principles are known as
a. social learning theorists. b. neo-Freudians. c. behavioral humanists. d. psychodynamic theorists.
Recently psychologists have begun using the __________________ test to detect aggressive tendencies
A) situational judgment B) conditional reasoning C) aggressive proclivities D) EEOC
A friend is worried about his son who is very active and is constantly injuring himself. What would you tell him to help him worry less? This behavior is very typical because his son's ____
a. motor development is advanced enough to do quite a bit, but his cognitive development is not able to anticipate situations that might be dangerous b. motor development is not yet very advanced and he is going to be involved in many accidents c. visual processing is lagging behind his motor development and he simply cannot see very well d. attention skills are not yet fully developed and his son is likely to not pay attention to his father's warnings to be careful