According to Kohut, narcissistic individuals are looking for a(n)
a) idealized, empathic parent substitute.
b) mirror image of themselves.
c) person who shares their overinflated opinion of themselves.
d) way to resolve their original Oedipal feelings.
Answer: a) idealized, empathic parent substitute.
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A dummy used to help surgeons learn how to insert a pacemaker has high psychological fidelity. This means that:
A) the dummy looks like a real human, to make the training more realistic. B) the dummy is dissimilar from a real human because the surgeons do not need to be nervous about killing the dummy. C) the behaviors the surgeons need to execute to successfully insert the pacemaker are similar to what they would do for a human patient. D) the procedure for inserting the pacemaker is not very similar to how it would be done on an actual human.
According to Piaget, the ability to understand that simply changing the appearance of an object does not change the object's nature is known as
a. object permanence. b. conservation. c. centration. d. reversibility. e. animism