When making inferences about another person's negative behaviors we tend to attribute the cause to stable factors that are internal to the person
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
True
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Dr. Hart is a psychoanalyst treating a patient with dissociative identity disorder. He will probably explain the loss of memory in his patient as being due to ____
a. the attention the patient receives for being so forgetful b. excessive id control and a lack of superego c. equally weak ego and id d. extreme repression in the face of intense anxiety
After a period of extinction, a temporary increase in the rate of responding is called:
A. spontaneous recovery B. extinction C. discrimination D. generalization
People with high self-esteem tend to have both greater happiness and persistence because they ____
a. ?have a reduced need for social relationships b. ?are more likely to weather bad news than are those with low self-esteem c. ?believe that they will never be socially rejected d. ?have fewer “storms” in life
Hal frequently coerces women into having intercourse. Assuming that he shares typical characteristics with other men who force women to have sex, Hal likely ____
a. came from a home in which his mother was more dominant than his father b. actively creates situations in which sexual encounters may occur c. attributes his failed attempts at sexual encounters to perceived negative features of himself d. tries to entice women into sexual encounters by talking about how great he is