Research on resilience shows that
A) heredity is more powerful than the environment in protecting children from the negative effects of stressful life events.
B) the environment is more powerful than heredity in protecting children from the negative effects of stressful life events.
C) interventions must attend to both the person and the environment to strengthen a child's capacity while also reducing hazardous experiences.
D) plasticity is limited to infancy and early childhood.
C
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Elliott, age 11, is suddenly afraid to go to school. Which of the following is the best advice you can give to Elliott's parents?
A) Allow him to stay home from school until he feels more comfortable. B) Become more protective of him by accompanying him to his classes. C) Lightheartedly point out that being afraid of going to school is not normal. D) Firmly insist that he return to school, and train him in how to cope with difficult situations.
If you stand in the checkout line of any discount store, you'll see a very odd assortment of items on display: disposable razors, batteries, ballpoint pens, playing cards, trail mix, USB drives, and so on
Retailers call these items "impulse buys," meaning that although people may not come to the store looking for cards, pens, or trail mix, when they see them near the checkout, they'll buy them. An attitude researcher might say that people buy these items because a. consumers' attitudes toward such utilitarian items are emotionally based. b. these items reflect people's social identity concerns, so they will deliberate quickly about whether to purchase them. c. attitudes toward these items may be highly accessible. d. intentions are relatively unimportant when people engage in deliberative behaviors like purchases.