Ten-year-old Gemma is presented with a stream of numbers on a computer screen. She is asked to press a button whenever the two-digit sequence of a "5" followed by a "7" appears. Gemma's __________ attention is being tested

The fact that a teen growing up during the Vietnam War will develop in a different manner than a teen growing up during the Iraq War is best explained in terms of a. multidirectionality. b. multiple causation. c. plasticity

d. historical context.

Scott is out shopping at the local bookstore and stumbles on a rare 20-volume set of The Civil War Years: Crisis, Peril, and Triumph. He has wanted this set for years, but unfortunately right now, he's unable to afford it. If the personality structures proposed by psychoanalytic theory could talk, what would the id likely say in this situation?

a. "Walk away and don't look back.". b. "Talk to the book store owner, see if you can put a small down payment on it to hold it, and then start saving up the money any way that you can.". c. "You really need this set of books. Why not just charge the whole thing on your already overburdened credit card?" d. "You always want things you can't afford. You need to spend your money on necessities, not luxuries.".

John Locke and other early philosophers claimed that the newborn's mind was

A) inherently evil. B) inherently good. C) unable to be accessed due to a lack of language capabilities. D) a blank slate.

The definition used in this book for hypersexuality (Goodman, 1992) is similar to the definition in DSM-5 for

a. psychoactive substance abuse b. exhibitionism c. sexual molester d. hypertension