The MOST common discipline technique for a child's misbehavior that North American parents use with preschool children is:

A) blaming themselves.
B) reasoning and disappointment.
C) time-outs.
D) removing children's playthings.

The psychoanalytic patient who lets her thoughts flow without interruption or fear of negative criticism from her therapist is using __________

A) dream interpretation.
B) positive transference.
C) regression.
D) free association.

A person reports being totally deaf, yet she gives vigorous startle responses to loud sounds. Of such occasions she reports, "I just felt I had to crouch quickly." These findings would be most similar to findings from studies on __________.

A) selective attention and the cocktail-party effect
B) people with blindsight
C) the effects of mental set on the perception of ambiguous figures
D) people who have reasonably good generic memory but virtually no procedural memory

According to Piaget,it is the different way of understanding the world that makes one stage of cognitive development more advanced than another.This is an example of

A) quantitative difference of thought.
B) qualitative difference of thought.
C) psychosocial developmental stage.
D) psychosexual developmental stage.

Which of the following proposes that males and females of approximately equal physical attractiveness will select each other as partners

A)  similarity hypothesis
B)  matching hypothesis 
C)  reciprocity effect
D)  least-common-denominator effect

The MMPI is an example of a

A) projective test.
B) personality inventory.
C) self-efficacy test.
D) self-esteem test.