Jill, mother of three school-age children, wants to leave her husband who has been mistreating her. However, without his income she could not afford a decent house; nor could she pay for her children's private education. Her decision to remain in her relationship is due to:

A) moral commitment.
B) constraint commitment.
C) spinelessness.
D) a failing social system.

According to Freud, girls suffer anxiety when they recognize that they do not have a penis.This frustration causes them to form a connection with their father, in the hope that the relationship will provide a replacement for the missing penis.According to Freudian theory, this is known as

A) the Oedipus complex.
B) castration anxiety.
C) the Electra complex.
D) a defense mechanism.

Whenever she has spent an hour in heavy traffic on the way to work,Sonya tends to speak rudely to her secretary,slam doors,and yell at clients.Sonya's behavior can best be explained by

A) hindsight bias.
B) outgroup homogeneity.
C) the frustration-aggression principle.
D) implicit associations.

The fight-or-flight response occurs in the

A) cerebral cortex.
B) parasympathetic division of the limbic system.
C) sympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system.
D) synaptic vesicles in the brain.

The idea that homosexuality evolved as a way to aid the continuation of the homosexual person's genes through the nurturance of other family members, such as nieces and nephews, is called the ____________ hypothesis.

A) family support
B) kin selection
C) sexual support
D) kin evolutionary

Research by Chambers and Reisberg on ambiguous figures such as the duck/rabbit showed that ______.

A) different people can form different mental images of the same physical stimulus
B) mental images are reversed more easily than physical images
C) once a mental image is formed,people cannot detect alterations to it
D) forming a mental image makes a person unable to later reverse his/her interpretation of a physical stimulus