The process by which children learn the behaviors and attitudes appropriate to their family, friends, and culture is called ________

a. attachment
b. autonomy
c. imprinting
d. socialization


Answer: d socialization (Socialization is a term used by sociologists, social psychologists, anthropologists, political scientists, and educationalists to refer to the lifelong process of inheriting and disseminating norms, customs, and ideologies, providing an individual with the skills and habits necessary for participating within his or her own society.)

Psychology

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A combination of flexibility in thinking and reorganization in understanding to produce innovative ideas is important in:

A. creative thinking B. semantics C. definitional theory D. concept formation

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Every participant in an experiment has an equal chance of receiving one of the treatments. This is called

a. control assignment. b. random selection. c. a placebo effect. d. random assignment. e. control selection.

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In which type of associative learning are the consequences the most important aspect for the learning to take place?

a. classical conditioning b. operant conditioning c. insight learning d. respondent learning

Psychology

Laboratory studies of bystander intervention indicate that the likelihood of intervention ________ as the number of bystanders ________

a. decreased; increased b. decreased; decreased c. increased; increased d. was unchanged; increased e. increased; decreased

Psychology