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Attitudes typically have a greater influence on behavior when we are aware of them and when they are strongly held.

A researcher who is interested in the biological factors associated with personality would most likely use which of the following personality assessment methods?

 Extra Credit item: Assume you are Haru’s parent. You two are at the grocery store and he yells loudly for candy again. You tell him, “No, and when we get home you cannot watch cartoons for the rest of the day because you yelled.” Your response is an example of:

The fact that babies will suck on a finger that is put in their mouth illustrates which of the following?

According to Jean Piaget, the process in which new information is incorporated into preexisting schemas is known as:

The actions of the ego are primarily directed by the pleasure principle.

For the following Extra Credit item, please fill-in the blank with the correct word or term. Please remember that spelling is important! Incorrectly spelled responses will be marked as incorrect.

In the video you were asked to watch about Harry Harlow, he presented infant monkeys with two “surrogate mothers.” One was a bare wire cylinder with a feeding bottle, and the other was a wire cylinder covered with soft terry cloth and no feeding bottle. The results of his experiments showed that:

If a child is in Piaget’s concrete operations stage of development, they have recently learned to _____.​

Curtis has authoritarian parents. They set a curfew of 11:00 p.m.for him on weekend nights. When Curtis comes home at 11:30 p.m. (after curfew) and tells his parents that he is late because of car trouble, they most likely will ___________.​