Secondary emotions are also known as sociomoral emotions because they ____

a. are present for the lifespan, from birth to death, for many cultural groups
b. have been found to have universal meaning across cultures
c. are based upon cultural standards of right or wrong
d. are present at birth for all infants regardless of culture

C. The secondary emotions are called sociomoral emotions because they are evoked based on what the toddler has learned about culturally based standards of right and wrong. These emotions develop because toddlers have learned to feel good when they conform to the expected standards and bad when they do not.

Psychology

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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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Which of the following methods of assigning participants to groups in an experiment is the best example of random sampling?

a. putting the girls in one group and the boys in another b. making sure that children are able to select the group to which they want to belong c. putting all children's names in a hat and drawing names to form the groups, even if this results in having unequal numbers of boys and girls in the groups d. having the teacher assign children to groups in order to best separate friends from each other

Psychology