Identify a true statement about the medical model of birth adopted by the United States.

A) Home births are encouraged, with minimal usage of medical procedures.
B) American women are encouraged to give birth in a familiar environment.
C) In hospital births, women give birth in the squatting position.
D) Physicians and pregnant women are encouraged to focus on possible complications that can arise.

New parents Willy and Bernice have both spent their lives being short-tempered.They spend a great deal of their time together apologizing for their thoughtlessness.Which of the following statements about temperament might be alarming to Willy and Bernice as they think about having children?

A) Temperament appears to be largely determined by genetics.
B) Temperament is not learned.
C) Temperament often changes on a frequent basis.
D) Second-born children are likely to have more difficult temperaments than firstborns.

Resistance means the patient refuses their medication.

Dogs come to fear neutral stimuli associated with shock.This best illustrates

A) epigenetics.
B) posttraumatic growth.
C) survivor resiliency.
D) conditioning.

You just got a new job at a big computer company where you will be assisting designers in making software more user-friendly.You are you most likely a(n)

A) social psychologist.
B) I/O psychologist.
C) human factors psychologist.
D) developmental psychologist.

According to Freud, children in the middle years are in the latency stage.

Which of the following is the second-to-last stage of dying as hypothesized by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross?

A) Separation distress
B) Bargaining
C) Depression
D) Anger

Although newspapers reported that a murder victim had been stabbed with a knife,two police investigators knew that the actual murder weapon was a letter opener.While carefully monitoring the changes in heart rate and perspiration level of a prime suspect,the investigators asked him if he typically used a letter opener on his mail.The investigators were making use of the

A) two-factor theory.
B) parasympathetic arousal.
C) Concealed Information Test.
D) Spillover Effect.