Discuss in detail the Type A personality type and the effect of stress on this type of personality. Include any research that has been done to back up your answer
What will be an ideal response?
Type A behavior involves impatience, hostility, aggressiveness, and competitiveness. The student should discuss how this personality type is linked to the likelihood of surviving heart attacks and following doctors' advice.
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Which of the following types makeup Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence?
a. analytical, creative, and practical intelligence b. sensorimotor, preoperational, and concrete operations c. linguistic, musical, and bodily–kinesthetic d. intrapersonal, interpersonal, and naturalistic
Lam and Buehler (2009) used targeted event recall to see how subjectively distant people feel from their memories
They had participants think back to a target event (acceptance to college) via either backward recall (recall events from now, back to the time of acceptance) or forward recall (recall the acceptance to college, and then subsequent events up to the present). They also asked people to rate their own judgment of how much they had changed since the target event. With forward recall, memories seemed ______ than with backward recall, and forward recall led participants to _____ judgments of self-change, relative to backward recall. a) more recent; lower b) more recent; higher c) more remote; lower d) more remote; higher