Students often enter college or adult life assuming that there are right and wrong answers for everything, and that the world can be divided easily into black versus white, good versus bad, and us versus them. What is this type of thinking called?
A. crystallized intelligence
B. epistemic cognition
C. dualistic thinking
D. relativistic thinking
Answer: C
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a. neuroticism; psychoticism b. extraversion; neuroticism c. conscientiousness; extraversion d. openness to experience; extraversion
Dr. Blagovich is interested in understanding how antidepressants affect brain structure. After administering SSRIs to a group of rats for several weeks, Dr. Blagovich analyzes their brain tissue. He is likely to find an increase in ____
a. ?subventricular volume b. ?the thickness of the cerebral cortex c. ?connectivity in the corpus callosum d. ?the numbers of neurons in the hippocampus
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a. APPLE b. ANANAB c. MAVEN d. BANDANA
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A. psychoanalytic B. humanistic C. behavioral D. Gestalt