________ generally refers to the traits that help a person to fulfill socially important adult roles such as being a spouse, a parent, or a worker.

A) Responsibility
B) Consistency
C) Maturity
D) Generativity

Chromosomes are contained within

A) brain cells.
B) sperm cells.
C) blood cells.
D) all of these types of cells.

A client tells his therapist about a dream in which he drives his wife to the airport where she boards a plane. As the plane takes off, he is smiling. The therapist says the dream suggests a desire for a divorce. The therapist's interpretation represents what Sigmund Freud called the dream's __________

A) deep content.
B) latent content.
C) manifest content.
D) subliminal content.

Which of the following illustrates the concept of delay of gratification?

A) preferring $500 now rather than $1,000 one year from now
B) preferring $1,000 one year from now rather than $500 now
C) preferring a 1-in-1,000 chance at $10,000 rather than $10 for certain
D) preferring $10 for certain rather than a 1-in-1,000 chance at $10,000

In the print media, newspapers and magazines feature poor women (particularly women of color) in stories about

A) racism.
B) welfare reform.
C) the need for education.
D) illiteracy.

The field of psychology today is

A) extremely diverse in the subjects it explores.
B) devoted mainly to the study of laboratory animals.
C) devoted mainly to studying anxiety and depression.
D) no longer interested in studying mental processes.

The type of learning in which voluntary responses come to be controlled by their consequences is

A) observational learning.
B) classical conditioning.
C) operant conditioning.
D) reinforcement.

According to surveys, therapists get much of their information on treatment best practices from colleagues, professional newsletters, workshops, conferences, Web sites, and books. This is a concern because:

A) the accuracy and timeliness of this information vary.
B) clinicians should be performing their own clinical research.
C) these sources rely primarily on qualitative research designs.
D) most of these sources are funded by pharmacologic companies.

Images can prime the visual pathway,making it easier to detect a faint stimulus.This is an example of ______ equivalence.

A) perceptual
B) spatial
C) structural
D) transformational

The negation of a contingency is itself a:

A) tautology
B) self-contradiction
C) contingency
D) coherency
E) unable to determine from the information given