The fact that variations in cognitive style sometimes reflect the ecological demands of one's environment helps to illustrate which of your text's unifying themes?
a. Our experience of the world is highly subjective.
b. Psychology is theoretically diverse.
c. Our behavior is shaped by our cultural heritage.
d. Psychology evolves in a sociohistorical context.
C
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A psychologist is diagnosing a patient and wants to measure the patient's prefrontal brain metabolism levels while the patient is told to concentrate on her obsessions. The psychologist uses fMRI to measure prefrontal brain metabolism levels before,
. She finds that her patient's concentration on obsessions is correlated with increases in prefrontal brain metabolism levels, and she concludes that her patient has obsessive-compulsive disorder. Discuss the grounds on which such a conclusion would be criticized, and describe what else the psychologist might do to diagnose her patient.
Lack of ______ has been a bone of contention in many areas of psychology, including health psychology.
A. hypotheses B. predictions C. replication D. models
Results from twin studies have done what involving claims presented in the book, “The Bell Curve”??
a. ?They have supported the strong nurture claim. b. ?They have not supported the strong nature claim. c. ?They have supported the strong nature claim. d. ?They have not supported the strong nurture claim.
The overwhelming feeling that people have at the point of retirement tends to be ______.
A. permanent for most, and they maintain a sense of dissatisfaction throughout life B. temporary for some while they see all the possibilities they have C. nonexistent for most; there is no overwhelming feeling at all D. debilitating for most, resulting in a greater sense of life dissatisfaction after retirement