While Professor Gomez was going through a painful divorce,he tended to create unnecessarily difficult tests and gave his students unusually low grades. A psychoanalyst would be most likely to view the professor's treatment of students as an example of

A) reaction formation.
B) displacement.
C) projection.
D) regression.

Traditionally,psychologists have been interested in development during childhood.What has changed about the focus of developmental psychology in recent decades

A)  The focus has shifted toward the prenatal period. 
B)  The focus has expanded to include adolescence. 
C)  The focus has expanded to include the whole life span. 
D)  The focus has shifted toward infancy.

Newborns

A) have better peripheral vision than adults.
B) are extremely farsighted.
C) have poorer peripheral vision than adults.
D) are unable to see in black and white because the rods of the retina are not developed at birth.

Depressed brain activity has been found in children who grow up in a(n)

A) enriched environment.
B) large family.
C) deprived environment.
D) inflexible environment.

Joan is a psychologist who argues that her client has a personality disorder due largely to the fact that his schemata (i.e., beliefs and assumptions) have become rigid and inflexible. Joan is taking a(n) ___________ approach to understanding the etiology of personality disorders.

A) attachment
B) psychoanalytic
C) psychiatric
D) behavioural
E) cognitive-behavioural

One orients to a stimulus by __________.

A) adjusting one's eye position so that the stimulus falls on the fovea
B) relying on peripheral acuity
C) relying primarily on audition
D) relying primarily on tactile response