____ involves shyness and social anxiety that is severe enough to interfere with normal life in terms of occupational, academic, or interpersonal functioning. The diagnosis can be sub-typed as Generalized if nearly all social or performance situations trigger the response, rather than more circumscribed ones such as public speaking.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

social phobia

Psychology

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In traditional cultures, the adolescent peer crowd is __________ than in Western

a. more age-graded b. more affluent c. less age-graded d. less affluent

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In explaining the process by which kin selection works to encourage altruism, evolutionary psychologists would argue that

a. helpers consciously consider "biological importance" before helping. b. norms have arisen to replace ingrained human behavior. c. over millennia, the genes of those who follow the "biological importance" rule will survive. d. the "biological importance" rule is used only in life-and-death situations.

Psychology