The scientific study of mental processes in the broadest sense: thinking, feeling,making decisions and judgments is ______ psychology
a. humanistic
b. behavioral
c. existential
d. cognitive
d
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Geraldo tends to have a negative mood and low levels of activity. He tends to withdraw from new stimuli but, with repeated exposure, will tend to show interest. Geraldo can be described as a child with a(n) ________ temperament
a. easy c. difficult b. fussy d. slow-to-warm-up
A therapist is helping a client to restructure the way she thinks and to alter her distorted self-statements. It sounds as though this therapist is using ________ therapy
a. biomedical b. humanistic c. psychodynamic d. cognitive
When Just and Carpenter asked participants to report the relative heights of craftsmen
brothers based on a passage they had just read, their results showed that participants were slower at providing answers when information was directly available than when it was only implied. This was because the participants a. had problems caused by too much information. b. were making inferences based on mental models. c. were generally rather unpracticed with the formal logic required by deductive reasoning. d. were unable to arrange the abstract information into a spatial model. e. confused the type of reasoning that was called for.
In the context of the origins of personality, which of the following is true of the quantitative trait loci (QTL) approach?
A. It states that a majority of personality is influenced by life experiences and the environment. B. It points to nurtured markers for several basic personality traits. C. It uncovers the location on particular genes that is associated with high or low levels of a trait. D. It focuses on the amount of similarity between identical versus fraternal twins on a given trait.