An enduring emotional bond characterized by a strong motivation for physical and psychological comfort is referred to as _______

a. empathy
b. attachment
c. object permanence
d. theory of mind


Answer: B

Rationale: Researchers have identified two general categories of this: secure and insecure.

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The cognitive movement was ____.?

a. ?an antecedent of evolutionary psychology b. ?a force against which evolutionary psychology rebelled c. ?enthusiastic about the work of Wilson on sociobiology d. ?suppressed shortly after its arrival by evolutionary psychology e. ?All of the choices are correct.

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In Milgram’s study of people who passed a group of confederates staring at a building, if we define “joining the crowd” as imitating the behavior of the confederates (by looking up at the building), then we can conclude

  a.  individuals only join crowds when they feel they are like the individuals in the crowd.   b.  crowds form when two or more people gather in one place.   c.  anonymity of a large group is critical to crowd formation.   d.  the lure of a crowd reaches its peak once it contains 5 or more members.   e.  individuals who are busy are unlikely to join a crowd.

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One example of socialization through language is described in the study of Portuguese-,

English-, and Mandarin-speaking children and their use of quantifiers such as "all" and "each." The researchers found that a. the Mandarin speakers never learned to distinguish between the two quantifiers. b. all three groups of children were able to distinguish between the two quantifiers at around 6 years of age. c. the Portuguese and Mandarin speakers learned to distinguish between the two quantifiers earlier than the English speakers. d. the English speakers learned to distinguish between the two quantifiers earlier than the Portuguese and Mandarin speakers.

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Andre first became suspicious of his roommate's honesty while trying to account for his own missing wallet. Although Andre later recalled that he had left his wallet in the glove compartment of his own car, his newly formed doubt about his roommate's honesty remained strong as ever. Andre's irrational suspicion of his roommate best illustrates

A) confirmation bias. B) the representativeness heuristic. C) functional fixedness. D) the belief perseverance phenomenon. E) the framing effect.

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