A highly skilled professional basketball player is slightly distracted by the child in the crowd with the ladybug hand-puppet. Based on research divided attention, one would predict the basketball player's performance will:

a. decrease
b. increase
c. go unaffected
d. become variable

B

Psychology

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Which of the following is true of the significance of the consciousness factors in the various personality theories?

a. Adler described humans as conscious, rational beings capable of planning and directing the course of our lives. c. According to Jung, we are driven completely by the forces that motivate us. b. Freud focused his theory on the conscious or cognitive processes. d. The cognitive movement in psychology has established the conscious as the sole determinant of human behavior.

Psychology

Which of the following is a common complaint by older adult couples?

A) Each partner complains that the other is a workaholic. B) They complain that they spend too much time together. C) They disagree over matters relating to finances. D) They disagree over their views on childrearing.

Psychology