Which assumption is fundamental to understanding how significant social relationships influence development?
a. Characteristics stay stable as individuals progress through time. b. People contribute actively to their development.
c. Development is based on physiological change in humans.
d. Individuals' development occurs as a type of adaptation to the environment.
b
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Clients' ratings, therapists' ratings, and scores on psychological tests could all be used as measures of
a. therapists' professional competence. b. the effectiveness of therapy. c. placebo effects. d. personality differences among clients.
Which of the following is a type of group awareness training that encourages intensely honest interchanges among participants regarding feelings and reactions and emphasizes the tearing down of defenses and false fronts?
a. sensitivity group b. encounter group c. psychodrama d. family therapy
Women who experience poor nutrition when they are pregnant have children who are more likely to be
a. underweight, because their growth rate never catches up. b. overweight, because they develop thrifty phenotypes. c. underweight, because their mothers' were underweight. d. overweight, because their mothers overfeed them to compensate.
The process of moving continuously closer to a final goal without ever digressing or going backward is ______
a. functional fixedness c. hill-climbing b. stepwise incrimination d. subgoal activation