You've always disliked a particular coworker who strikes you as dishonest, but he is nice to you and does you favors, so you become friendly with him despite your miivings. One day you learn that he stole personal items from your desk. You now decide to discontinue the friendship. Your negative attitude toward this coworker is strengthened through __________

A) operant conditioning.
B) instrumental learning.
C) classical conditioning.
D) reduction of cognitive dissonance.

Describing a word or expression as ambiguous means that the word or expression ____________.

Parents of all income levels in the United States tend to provide substantial help to their adult children.

The adjustable opening in the center of the eye is the

A) fovea.
B) iris.
C) cornea.
D) pupil.

If a shock is always preceded by a tone,and then sometimes also is preceded by a light that accompanies the tone,a rat will react

A) with no fear either to the tone or to the light.
B) with fear to the tone but not to the light.
C) with fear to the light but not to the tone.
D) with equally high levels of fear both to the tone and to the light.

Both Rogers and Maslow believed

A) people are not masters of their own destiny
B) people have a basic need to fulfill their potential for personal growth
C) human behaviour is largely determined by primitive sexual urges
D) human behaviour is shaped by environmental events

Which of the following is NOT a good predictor of violent behavior?

A) engaging in previous violence
B) access to guns
C) alcohol or drug use
D) having a psychological disorder

Whose stage theory of moral development was based on how people reasoned about ethical dilemmas?

A) Erikson
B) Piaget
C) Hall
D) Kohlberg