Research indicates that _______ plays a major role in the development of borderline personality disorder.
a. a person’s genetic background
b. a person’s infancy experiences
c. how a person reacts to the loss of a loved one
d. how a person deals with embarrassing or humiliating events
d. how a person deals with embarrassing or humiliating events
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Modern psychology shares which of the following characteristics with ancient Greek philosophy?
a. ?An interest in the same kinds of questions about human nature b. ?The development of common methods of research to answer questions about human nature c. ?A reliance upon biology to help in the understanding of human nature d. ?The denial that humans are composed of a physical body and a spiritual soul e. ?None of the choices are correct
Which method will result in having a truly random sample of the population of the United States??
a. ?Randomly select names from every phone book published in the United States. b. ?Advertise in every newspaper in the country that you will pay $10/hour to anyone willing to be in a research project. c. ?Select names from the Internal Revenue Service of every person who filed income tax returns last year such that every income level is equally represented. d. ?Obtain names from the U.S. census bureau and randomly select participants.
Marshall has retired from his job and finds life very unsatisfying. As he reflects over his life, he sees himself as a failure and his life as a series of missed opportunities. Erikson would say that Marshall is experiencing
a. shame and doubt. b. guilt. c. stagnation. d. despair.
When men are processing navigational information (e.g., making their way through a maze), they tend to use their left hippocampal region. Women doing the same task tend to use their __________
a) ascending and lateral substantia nigra. b) anterior hypothalamus. c) right parietal and frontal cortexes. d) mortical ganglia.