In a strong situation, we expect to observe
A) large personality differences in how people respond.
B) almost no personality differences in how people respond.
C) some personality differences, depending on the traits.
D) acquiescence.
Answer: B) almost no personality differences in how people respond.
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c. The theory does not account for variability in children's performance. d. The theory is based on an excessively large sample.
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A) one goal of IPT is insight. B) IPT accepts the theoretical view that unconscious processes can manifest themselves in psychological problems. C) IPT analysts believe that transference can occur during therapy. D) clients lie on couches and face away from the ITP analyst.
A weakness of the learning theory of language development is that
a. parents reinforce their children for the grammatical correctness of utterances. b. children imitate the speech of their peers as well as of their parents. c. cooing and crying are inborn. d. two-word utterances develop in an invariant sequence around the world.
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A. divergent B. construct C. criterion D. face