Researchers who are interested in the relationship between televised aggression and subsequent behavior have found that children who watch a good deal of televised aggression (murders, crime shows, shootings, etc.)
tend to be more aggressive than those who watch little of this type of television programming. This is an example of a(n) ____________ study.
a) scientific
b) experimental
c) theoretical
d) correlational
d
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Which of the following hypotheses did psychoanalytic theory and behaviorism agree upon before Harlow's research?
Infants are genetically programmed to bond with their mothers. Infants' attachments to their mothers result from the fact that their mothers feed them. Infants need to learn to love their mothers over the first several years of life because their mothers are kind toward them. Infants have no true love for their mothers, as infants are not cognitively advanced enough to understand love.
How would someone taking the interactionist approach to personality explain good health?
A) As a result of being biologically superior to sick people B) As a result of good behaviors that have been learned thought the years C) As a result of a good homeostasis; the integration between the self and environment D) As a result of a good amount of control between the person and the environment E) As a result of being able to release stress by using defense mechanisms