Your friend Suki's grandmother has always told her that happier people experience less stress. Since she knows that you are taking a psychology course, she asks you whether or not psychologists would agree with her grandmother. Which of the following would you be most likely to tell her?
a. Yes, Grandma was correct; research has shown that humor can moderate the effects of stress.
b. No, Grandma does not know what she is talking about. There is no good evidence to support the claim that a sense of humor allows you to lead a less stressful life.
c. Grandma could be correct, but psychologists are uncertain since the research has been inconsistent.
d. Grandma is mistaken; humor can help us cope with painful illnesses, but not stress.
A
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A. unique to a particular therapist B. determined by the personality of a particular therapist C. borrowed from a number of different approaches D. beneficial to a small number of patients only
One reasonable criticism of Freud's psychodynamic theory is
that several of his concepts, including therapeutic interpretations, are difficult to measure and verify. From a critical thinking concept, this presents the challenge of A) replicability. B) falsifiability. C) Occam's Razor. D) correlation versus causation.
Kohlberg's cognitive developmental theory of gender was based on Jean Piaget's ideas about cognitive development
a. True b. False
If the functioning of genes were controlled by experience, what observation might this explain?
A. smoothly flowing developmental changes from infancy to adulthood B. mutant genes that lead to genetic diseases C. changes in brain resulting from learning D. physiological differences between chimpanzees and humans