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Myers' Psychology For The Ap(r) Course 3rd Edition David G. Myers, C. Nathan DeWall - Solutions
=+ focused on moral intuition and how people feel about moral situations. however, was more in- terested in moral reasoning and how people think about moral situations.
=+2.c. children who can delay gratification are often successful as adults.d. children who can delay gratification often do not flourish as adults.e. adolescents who can delay gratification tend to be at the preconventional level of morality.
=+a. adolescents are unable to control most impulses.b. adults who can delay gratification often have lower paying jobs.
=+1. Walter Mischel's famous "marshmallow test" found that
=+ 51-2 Describe adolescent cognitive and moral development according to Piaget, Kohlberg, and later researchers.
=+51-1 Define adolescence, and discuss how the physical changes during this period affect developing teens.
=+50-2 Discuss the ways in which parents and peers shape children's development.
=+50-1 Describe how early experiences can modify the brain.
=+5. Carol Gilligan's research emphasizes prominent female characteristics, especiallya. spatial abilities.b. making social connections.c. playing in large groups.d. talking a great deal.e. playing in competitive groups.
=+4. Diego likes to play sports and video games, whereas Sara likes to sing, dance, and play "house." This example best depicts which of the following?a. Gender identityb. Gender typingc. Gender schemad. Social learning theorye. Gender expression
=+3. Which of the following is generally true of males when compared to females?a. They have a longer life span.b. They are more likely to have a democratic leadership style.c. They are more likely to commit suicide.d. They are more likely to be diagnosed with depression.e. They are more likely to
=+ 2. Gender are the social expectations that guide men and women's behavior. Gender, of being male or female.a. concepts; roleb. preferences; rolec. roles; preferenced. roles; identitye. roles; preference is a person's sense
=+1. According to research, which of the following is more common among males than females?a. Physical aggressionb. Smilingc. Relational aggressiond. Averting one's eyese. Apologizing
8. Human factors psychologists focus primarily ona. training and developing employees.b. appraising employee performance.c. maximizing worker satisfaction.d. improving the design of machines and environments.
7. Effective managers often exhibita. only task leadership.b. only social leadership.c. both task and social leadership, depending on the situation and the person.d. task leadership for building teams and social leadership for setting standards.
6. Research indicates that women are often social leaders. They are also more likely than men to have a leadership style.
5. What type of goals will best help you stay focused and motivated to do your finest work in this class?
4. In your job, you rate your own performance, your manager’s, and your peers’.Your manager, your peers, and your customers also rate your performance.Your organization is using a form of performance appraisal calleda. the assessment center approach.b. graphic feedback.c. structured
3. A personnel psychologist scripted a set of questions to ask all applicants for a job opening. She then trained the firm’s interviewers to ask only those questions, to take notes, and to rate applicants’ responses. This technique is known as a(n)a. structured interview.b. unstructured
2. psychologists assist with job seeking, and the recruitment, selection, placement, training, appraisal, and development of employees;psychologists focus on how people and machines interact, and on optimizing devices and work environments.
1. People who view their work as a calling often experience , a focused state of consciousness, with diminished awareness of themselves and of time.
RP-4 What is the curse of knowledge, and what does it have to do with the work of human factors psychologists?
What situations have you experienced (using new technology, visiting buildings, using transportation) in which the design did not work well? What situations have you experienced in which planners did a particularly good job matching machines and physical environments to abilities and expectations?
How do human factors psychologists work to create user-friendly machines and work settings?
RP-3 What characteristics are important for transformational leaders?
In what type of leadership role do you think you would most excel? If you already have leadership experience, how could you grow to become a more effective leader?
What cultural influences need to be considered when choosing an effective leadership style?
How can leaders be most effective?
Why are organizational psychologists interested in employee satisfaction and engagement?
RP-2 A human resources director explains to you that “I don’t bother with tests or references. It’s all about the interview.” Based on I/O psychology research, what concerns does this raise?
How do personnel psychologists facilitate job seeking, employee selection, work placement, and performance appraisal?
What are industrial-organizational psychology’s three key areas of study?
RP-1 What is the value of finding flow in our work?
What have you discovered about your own strengths and about the kind of career you might see yourself pursuing?
What is flow?
11. A psychologist conducting basic research to expand psychology’s knowledge base maya. design a computer screen with limited glare and assess the effect on computer operators’ eyes after a day’s work.b. treat older people who are overcome by depression.c. observe 3- and 6-year-olds solving
10. A mental health professional with a medical degree who can prescribe medication is a .
9. A psychologist treating emotionally troubled adolescents at a local mental health agency is most likely to be a(n)a. research psychologist.b. psychiatrist.c. industrial-organizational psychologist.d. clinical psychologist.
8. Martin Seligman and other researchers who explore various aspects of human flourishing refer to their field of study as .
7. Which of the following is true regarding gender differences and similarities?a. Differences among the genders outweigh any similarities.b. Despite some gender differences, the underlying processes of human behavior are the same.c. Both similarities and differences among the genders depend more
6. “Nurture works on what nature provides.” Describe what this means, using your own words.
5. Nature is to nurture asa. personality is to intelligence.b. biology is to experience.c. intelligence is to biology.d. psychological traits are to behaviors.
4. In the early twentieth century, redefined psychology as “the science of observable behavior.”a. John B. Watsonb. Abraham Maslowc. William Jamesd. Sigmund Freud
3. William James would be considered a(n) . Wilhelm Wundt and Edward Titchener would be considered .a. functionalist; structuralistsb. structuralist; functionalistsc. evolutionary theorist; structuralistsd. functionalist; evolutionary theorists
2. In 1879, in psychology’s first experiment, and his students measured the time lag between hearing a ball hit a platform and pressing a key.
1. How can critical thinking help you evaluate claims in the media, even if you’re not a scientific expert on the issue?
RP-13 What does SQ3R stand for?
RP-12 The describes the enhanced memory that results from repeated retrieval (as in self-testing) rather than from simple rereading of new information.
Of all of these helpful principles, which ones seem most relevant and important for improving your own life and studies?How will you add them to your usual routines?
How can psychological principles help you learn, remember, and thrive?
RP-11 Match the specialty (i through iii) with the description (a through c). i. Clinical psychology a. works to create social and physical environments that are healthy for all
When you signed up for this course, what did you know about different psychology specialties?
What are psychology’s main subfields?
RP-10 The - perspective in psychology focuses on how behavior and thought differ from situation to situation and from culture to culture, while the perspective emphasizes observation of how we respond to and learn in different situations.
RP-9 What advantage do we gain by using the biopsychosocial approach in studying psychological events?
Which of psychology’s theoretical perspectives do you find most interesting? Why?
How do psychologists use the biopsychosocial approach, and how can it help us understand our diverse world?
How have your cultural experiences influenced your development?
RP-8 What is contemporary psychology’s position on the nature–nurture issue?
RP-7 What is natural selection?
RP-6 How did the cognitive revolution affect the field of psychology?
Think of one of your own traits. (For example, are you a planner or a procrastinator—do you usually complete assignments on time, or late? Are you more an extravert or introvert—do you become energized by social interactions, or recharge by spending time alone?) How do you think that trait was
How would you have defined psychology before taking this class?
How has contemporary psychology focused on cognition, on biology and experience, on culture and gender, and on human flourishing?
RP-5 From the 1920s through the 1960s, the two major forces in psychology were and psychology.
How did behaviorism, Freudian psychology, and humanistic psychology further the development of psychological science?
RP-4 The school of used introspection to define the mind’s makeup; focused on how mental processes enable us to adapt, survive, and flourish.
RP-3 Why did introspection fail as a method for understanding how the mind works?
RP-2 What event defined the start of scientific psychology?
How do you think psychology might change in the future as more women, and others from historically excluded groups, contribute their ideas to the field?
What were some important milestones in psychology’s early history?
RP-1 Describe what’s involved in critical thinking.
How does critical thinking feed a scientific attitude, and smarter thinking for everyday life?
Were you surprised to learn that psychology is a science? How would you explain that now if someone asked you about it?
How is psychology a science?
Have you ever become depressed or anxious and wondered whether you’ll ever feel“normal”? What triggers our bad moods—and our good ones? What’s the line between a routine mood swing and a psychological disorder?
Have you ever wondered what fosters school and work success? Does inborn intelligence explain why some people get richer, think more creatively, or relate more sensitively? Or does gritty effort, and a belief in the power of persistence, matter more?
Have you ever played peekaboo with a 6-month-old and wondered why the baby finds your disappearing/reappearing act so delightful? What do babies actually perceive and think?
Have you ever awakened from a nightmare and wondered why you had such a crazy dream? Why do we dream?
Have you ever worried about how to act among people of a different culture, gender identity, or sexual orientation? How are we alike as members of the human family? How do we differ?
Have you ever found yourself reacting to something as one of your biological parents would—perhaps in a way you vowed you never would—and then wondered how much of your personality you inherited? To what extent do genes predispose our individual differences in personality? How do home and
What Is Psychology?
=+ 49-4 Explain how gender roles and gender identity differ.
=+49-3 Identify the factors that contribute to gender bias in the workplace.
=+49-2 Describe some ways in which males and females tend to be alike and to differ.
=+49-1 Discuss how the meaning of gender differs from the meaning of sex.
=+48-6 Describe the outcomes that are associated with each parenting style.
=+ 48-5 Describe the four main parenting styles.
=+48-4 Trace the onset and development of children's self-concepts.
=+48-3 Discuss how childhood neglect or abuse affects children's attachments.
=+48-2 Explain how psychologists have studied attachment differences, and synthesize what they have learned.
=+48-1 Describe how parent-infant attachment bonds form.
=+a. theory of mind.b. zone of abstract logic.c. zone of abstract reasoning.d. zone of proximal development.e. zone of developmental readiness.
=+3. Vygotsky called the space between what a child could learn with and without help the
=+a. understand that the model represented her room, but not be able to find the toy in her own room.b. exhibit schematic thinking and be able to explain the study back to you.c. be unable to find the toy in her room due to a lack of symbolic thinking.d. understand that the model represented her
=+2. If you showed a 2-year-old a model of her bedroom where you'd hidden a toy behind the bed, she would
=+a. conservation.b. accommodation.c. cognition.d. object permanence.e. assimilation.
=+1. Your friend's baby brother, Matt, loves to play with his pet cat. When he sees a puppy, he points and calls it "Mi Mi," which is what he calls his cat. Matt is demonstrating Piaget's process of
=+47-2 Discuss autism spectrum disorder and its effect on development.
=+47-1 Describe how a child's mind develops from the perspectives of Piaget, Vygotsky, and today's researchers.
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