Relative insensitivity to delayed rewards helps explain why it is:
A) common that people behave in ways to maximize their own long-term interests.
B) easier to use punishment than reinforcement to control behaviour.
C) difficult to engage in behaviours that have only long-term benefits.
D) relatively easy for most people to save for retirement.
C) difficult to engage in behaviours that have only long-term benefits.
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The pleasure principle is associated with which element of Freud's personality theory?
a) id b) ego c) superego d) preconscious
For several months, Ted has been taking increasingly larger doses of sleeping pills to treat insomnia. He just decided to quit taking any sleeping pills. What is likely to happen to Ted when he stops taking the sleeping pills?
a) He will become depressed. b) He will experience the REM rebound. c) He will increase his intake of caffeine. d) He will suffer the symptoms of narcolepsy.