Janie just has to get her paper written for her English class. Even though she is getting married this summer and planning the wedding is more personally important to her, she simply shuts all thoughts of her wedding out of her mind and buckles down to get the paper done. Janie has experienced ________________

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word


goal shielding

Psychology

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Six-year-old Jean hits another child and steals the child's lunch money. A psychologist who takes a psychodynamic approach would suggest that Jean

A. learned that hitting someone would result in a reward. B. has an unconscious drive for aggression, causing her to act out. C. asserted herself, an example of bettering herself as a person. D. hit the child for food, an adaptive mechanism to survive.

Psychology

In a control group posttest only between subjects design, if you had 16 participants in each group, how many degrees of freedom would there be?

a. 16 c. 30 b. 32 d. 31

Psychology

__________ children are likely to develop a learned-helpless approach to peer difficulties—concluding, after repeated rebuffs, that they will never be liked

A) Controversial B) Rejected-withdrawn C) Rejected-aggressive D) Popular-antisocial

Psychology

Research has found that during the Zika virus epidemic, all of the reported infants born to an infected mother showed signs of microcephaly.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

Psychology