Five year-old Laura threw her toy at her 3-year-old brother, Sam, who was bothering her. Their mother sat them both down and explained why throwing toys was not OK. She then took the toy away from Laura for five minutes and explained why she was taking the toy away. Which parenting style would describe their mother?

Comparing a person's score on a psychological test to the average score obtained on that test from a large representative sample of people is a

a. self-referent comparison b. psychometric comparison c. normative comparison d. clinical comparison

In 1997 the members of the Heaven's Gate cult in San Diego, California, ingested a combination of cyanide and arsenic. All 39 of these individuals died together in the same house. This would be an example of:

a) parasuicide. b) culticide. c) subintentional death. d) rational suicide.