Walter Mischel turned the field of personality psychology topsy-turvy for a while by . . .
a. Suggesting that virtually all personality research is worthless
b. Suggesting that personality is an illusion
c. Both of the above
d. None of the above
b. Suggesting that personality is an illusion
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Harter's self-perception research with older children indicated that self-esteem
a. emerges as a single entity and remains unchanged after this. b. is unidimensional, consisting of a global sense of self. c. becomes less realistic as children enter adolescence. d. is multidimensional, consisting of several distinct domains.
You go to your therapist for the first time and he tells you to lie on a couch in a slightly darkened room. He then asks you to talk about anything that comes to your mind, no matter how trivial it may seem. The technique being used by your therapist is known as
a. catharsis. c. free association. b. repression. d. resistance.
Gizela, while visiting her sister and her newborn nephew, could not help but pick up the baby when he began to cry. According to Bowlby, the baby's crying is an example of a(n)
a. signaling behavior. c. conditioned emotional response. b. social reference. d. ambivalent attachment.
Sex-linked inheritance means which of the following?
a) The gene is on an X or a Y chromosome. b) The gene is dormant until after puberty. c) The gene is only inherited by females. d) The gene is only active in males.