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Psychologists who give potential employees tests that determine what kind of job those employees might be best suited for are interested in the goal of?

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Prediction

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Which neurotransmitter is associated with the control of the pain response?

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Endorphin

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A correlation tells us

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Whether two variables are related

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Which goal of psychology is most closely met through naturalistic observation?

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Describing behavior

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Dr. Braunz has been treating a child with attention deficit hyperactivity disorders. She decides to write a prescription for Ritalin. Dr. Braunx is a

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Psychiatrist

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Hormones are

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Chemicals released into the bloodstream by the endocrine glands

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A researcher stops people at the mall and ask them questions about their attitudes toward gun control. Which research technique is being used?

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Survey

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Harlan wanted to write realistically about street gangs, so he pretended to be a teenager and joined a real gang. Most similar method is

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Participant observation

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A weakness of ___ is that subjects participating in the research often report, consciously and unconsciously, inaccurate information

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Surveys

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Drinking orange juice is negatively correlated with the risk of cancer. Based on this information, which of the following statements is true?

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The more orange juice you drink, the lower your risk of cancer

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In a controlled experiment, the group subjected to a change in the independent variable is called the

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Experimental group

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Andy has decided to seek medical help for mood disturbances and appetite problems. Which neurotransmitter is most likely involved in the problems Andy is experiencing?

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Serotonin

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Dr. Silverberg designed a study in which she tests infants for memory ability. Before she can begin her study, she must obtain

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Informed consent from the parents

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In the 1970s, a 13 year old girl was found locked up in room, strapped to a potty chair. Since she has grown up in a world without human speech, researches studied "Genie's" ability to acquire words, grammar, and pronunciation. This type of research is

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A case study

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The goals of psychology are to

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Describe, explain, predict, and control behavior

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Julie finds that the number of hours she sleeps each night is related to the scores she receives on quizzes the next day. As her sleep approaches 8 hours her quiz scores improve, as her sleep drops to 5 hours her quiz scores show a similar decline, Julie realizes

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There is a positive correlation between the number of hours she sleeps and her quiz grades

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Dr. Littman-smith is conducting research in Kenya into the ways that mothers and their toddlers interact throughout the day. Given the purpose of her study, it is most likely that she is engaged in

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Naturalistic observation

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A group of students was asked to write an essay in support of the legalization of marijuana. They were paid $.50. Another group of students received $2.00 for the same task. It was subsequently found that those students who received only $.50 developed a more positive attitude towards the legalization of maijuana. Experiment in this study was

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Experimental method

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Which of these is the most accurate definition of the discipline of psychology?

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The scientific study of behavior and mental processes

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Psychologists use research techniques based on

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The scientific method

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A researcher places dogs in a cage with metal bars on the floor. The dogs are randomly given electric shocks and can do nothing to prevent them or stop them. Later, the same dogs are placed in a cage where they can escape. They just sit and cower. This is an example

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Learned helplessness

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Fred is afraid of spiders. He won't even watch a nature show on TV about them. When he sees a picture of a spider, he has a panic attach, but when he avoids looking at the image, his panic goes away. Fred's avoidance of spiders is being

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Negatively reinforced, because he is rewarded by his anxiety going down

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A farmer is being troubled by coyotes eating his sheep. In a attempt to solve the problem, he kills a sheep and laces its body with a nausea-inducing drug. He leaves the sheep out where he knows the coyotes roam. He hopes they will learn not to eat the sheep. The farmer is attempting to apply the principle of

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Conditioned taste aversions

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A Skinner box is most likely to be used in research on

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Operant conditioning

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What could John Watson have done to eliminate Little Albert's conditioned fear?

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Show Albert a rat many times without a loud noise following

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Punishment is MOST effective

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When it occurs immediately after the undesired behavior

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Every time Maricella goes to work in the morning, she notives that her dog sulks in the corner of the room and looks very sad. Over several weeks, she notices that the dog gets unhappy when she picks up her car keys, immediately before leaving the house. Which phenomenon of learning nest describes the dogs behavior?

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Classical conditioning

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College students faced with unsolved problems eventually give up and make up only half hearted attempts to solve new problems, even when the new problems can be solved easily. This behavior is

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Learned helplessness

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A child is punished and temporarily stops his or her well-established bad behavior. However, the child soon goes back to acting badly. This is because

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Punishment is known only to temporarily suppress or inhibit a behavior

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Alan always turns the aquarium light on before putting fish food in the tank. After awhile he notices that the fish swim to the top to look for the food as soon as he turns on the light. The ___ is the unconditioned stimulus

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Fish food

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We can see a candle flame at 30 miles on a clear, dark night, and we can hear the tick of a watch 20 feet away in a quiet room, these two facts are example of

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Absolute thresholds

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Olivia is punished for spilling her cereal. Her parents give her a spanking and send her to her room where she cries. Later, her puppy makes a mess on the floor. Olivia kicks her puppy and puts in out in the yard where is whines sadly. Which of the following statements explains her behavior toward the puppy?

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Olivia is modeling the aggressive behavior her parents demonstrated to her

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Pavlov placed meat powder in the mouth of dogs, and they began to salivate. The food acted as an

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Unconditioned stimulus

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Sue noticed whenever she opened the door to the pantry, her dog would come into the kitchen and act hungry by drooling and whining. She thought that because the dog food was stored in the pantry, the sound of the door has become

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Conditioned stimulus

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A girl learns that whenever her brother shares his cookie with her, her mother give him a piece of candy. The girl starts sharing her treats with her friends when they come over in the hopes of getting a similar reward. The girls learning is an example of

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Observational learning

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___ occurs when certain receptors located in the various sensory organs are activated, allowing various forms of outside stimuli to become neural signals in the brain

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Sensations

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Sensation is to __ as perception is to __

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Gathering; understanding

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Michael grows up in a home where his father is generally unloving toward his mother. He observes his father yell and degrade his mother, and he notices that his mother never resists this treatment. Based on the work of Bandura, what might we predict about Michaels own relationship when he is older?

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Michael may treat women with discourtesy and disrespect, as he repeats the behavior he saw in his father

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A grandmother gives her grandchild a cookie because the child cleaned her room. What is the cookie in this example?

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Positive reinforcer

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What was the unconditioned stimulus in the case of Little Albert?

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A loud noise

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An example of a group or organization that tries to maximize the similarity between figure and ground would be

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Army

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What has occurred when there is a decrease in the likelihood or rate of a target response

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Punishment

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A disorder in which breathing briefly stops during sleep, causing that person to choke, gasp, and momentarily awaken.

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Sleep apnea

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Under most circumstances, when you are intentionally trying to remember an item of information, ___ is an easier task than ___

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Recognition; recall

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Omar is currently undergoing psychoanalysis. His therapist asks him to keep a journal to therapy and discusses his dreams with his therapists. Omars therapist is attempting to do which of the following?

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Uncover repressed material

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Imagine that the first car you learned to drive was a manual transmission with a clutch, but the car you drive now is an automatic. Sometimes you find yourself reaching for the clutch that is no longer there. This example illustrates

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Proactive interference

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A witness on the stand swears that he saw someone commit a crime. Must you believe that the testimony is valid when a witness testifies so forcefully

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No, because there is a great possibility of a "false positive" identification

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According to Freud, the ___ of the dream refers to the hidden, symbolic meaning of the dream, which, if correctly interpreted, reveals the unconscious conflicts that created the nervous disorder,

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Latent content

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To treat you sleep problem, you are told that you should avoid sleeping pills, alcohol, and caffeine, that you should set your alarm clock to wake up at the same time each day, and that you should get out of bed if you cannot sleep. What sleep disorder have you been experiencing?

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Insomnia

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According to sigmund Freud, when you awaken in the morning and remember a dream, you recall the dreams

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Manifest content

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The best place to take you biology exam to ensure good retrieval of biology concepts is in the

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Biology classroom

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Base on Loftus's 1978 study, subjects viewed a slide presentation of an accident, and some of the subjects were asked a question about a blue car when the actual slides contained pictures of a green car. When these same subjects were asked about the color of the car at the accident, they were found to be confused. This is an example of

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Misinformation effect

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Which memory system has an unlimited capacity and can keep information for hours or decades

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Long-term memory

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Your friend has experienced excessive day time sleepiness. He is laughing with you and suddenly falls to the ground. Your friend is probably suffering from

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Narcolepsy

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Trying to remember someones name that you met long ago is an example of what type of process?

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Retrieval

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John will likely experience REM rebound tonight if he

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Did not sleep must last night

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Shalissa has two exams today. One is in French and the other is in history. Last night she studied French before history. When she gets to her French test, all she can remember is history? Shalissa memory is suffering from

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Retroactive interference

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__ is retention of memory for some period of time

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Storage

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When people hear a sound, their ears turn the vibrations in the air into neural messages from the auditory nerve, which makes it possible for the brain to interpret the sound. This process is called

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Encoding

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Moishe can remember only the first two items and the last two items on the grocery list that his wife just read to him over the phone. The other five items in between are gone. This is an example of

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Serial position effect

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Consciousness is the

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Awareness of ourselves at the environment

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Loni is asked to memorize the letters I K T E A L N is no particular order. She memorizes them by reorganizing them into the words INK and LATE. This is called

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Chunking

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Late night, Allies mom gave her a haircut. As she walked into her high school, she felt like everyone could tell that her bangs were a little uneven. This illustrates the belief of

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Imaginary audience

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Rebellion in the teenage years is the most likely outcome of ___ parenting

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Authoritarian

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In which of Piagets stages does the child become capable of understanding conversations?

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Concrete operations

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Ashani is 18 months old. When her mom leaves her at the babysitters house. Ashani cries initially, after a few moments, she stops crying because her mom is "out of sight and out of mind" According to Piaget, which period of cognitive development would Ashani be in

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Sensorimotor

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In Harry Harlow's study of attachment, the primary factor in determining the baby monkeys attachment figure was

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Contact comfort

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Ron, a toddler, takes a picture and puts it to the receiver of a phone in order to "show" it to his grandmother. Example of

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Egocentrism

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Mary Ainsworth observed that securely attached infants

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Cry if the mother leaves the room. and do not seek her out on her return.

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Like an 4-month-old, Amy depends on her parents to feed her and to change her diapers. When Amy cries her devoted parents quickly respond to her needs. According to Erikson, Amy is developing a sense of

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Trust

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According to Erikson, if a middle-aged person is unable to focus outward and is still dealing with issues of intimacy or even identity, that person is experiencing

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Stagnation

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The emotional bond that forms between an infant and a primary caregiver is called

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Attachment

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Chester is irritable, loud, and negative most of the time. He does not like it when new people pick him up, and he has irregular sleeping, eating, and waking schedules. What temperament does he exhibit

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Difficult

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Gretas child has facial deformities, a smaller than normal head, heart defects, metal retardation, learning difficulties, and delayed growth. If these defects can be traced to a teratogen used by Greta when she was pregnant, which was most likely abusing?

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Alcohol

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Whereas Piaget saw cognitive development as a result of individual discovery and a child's interaction with objects, Vygotsky attributed cognitive development to

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Interaction between a child and skilled people

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Ethan a three year old, asks him mom to cut a pizza pie into twelve rather than eight pieces because he is "really hungry". On the basis of this example, it is most appropriate to conclude that Ethan

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Does not understand conversation

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According to Vygotsky, giving a child help in the form of asking leading questions and providing examples is called

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Scaffolding

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What was Mary Ainsworth trying to determine when she devised an experimental method called the "strange Situation"

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The nature of attachment between caregivers and children

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In Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development between 7 and 12 years of age, in which an individual becomes capable of logical thought processes but is not yet capable of abstract thinking, in the __ stage

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Concrete operations

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Young infants cannot appreciate the carnival game in which a pea seems to disappear from under a walnut because they have not yet developed a sense of

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Object permanence

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Sue sees her mother knitting a sweater. Later, sue takes out a ball of yarn and some knitting needles from her mothers supplies and tries to do the same. This is a good example of the ___ theory of gender development

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Social learning theory

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Professor Sanchez is interested in studying development of motor skills. She collects data from 200 one year old and follows and assesses them for a period of five years. What type of research design in Professor Sanchez using?

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Longitudinal design

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Abe just got his drivers license. He loves to speed around town going more than 20 miles per hour above the speed limit. He believes that he can speed through red lights due to his perfect timing. This is an example of

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Personal fable

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Joe rarely takes any work home, preferring to leave his work worries at the office. He is not ambitious and likes to have a lot of leisure time when it is possible. He is also easygoing and doesn't lose his temper often, preferring to avoid conflicts. Which of the following statements about Joe is most likely true?

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Joe is Type B personality

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Jenna skipped dinner last night to stay up late studying for her final exam. She went to bed at 6 am and had to be to class at 8 am. Her alarm clock did not go off as scheduled, and she raced out the door without eating. As a result, she was very distracted by hunger gangs and lack of energy while taking the test. She later learned that she failed her exam. Jenna could have likely performed better on her final if she had met a ___ need before the final

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Physiological

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A person who is ambitious, time conscious, extremely hardworking, easily annoyed, and tends to have high levels of hostility and anger is said to be exhibiting a ___ personality

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Type A

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Phrases such as "caught between a rock and a hard place" and "out of the frying pan, into the fire" refer to __ conflicts

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Avoidance-avoidance

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The type A behavior pattern is a significant predictor of

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Coronary heart disease

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Bill has felt isolated and on "outsider" since coming to college for his freshman year. As a result, he decided to rush a fraternity and was very excited when he was selected to pledge. According to Maslow, Bill may be attempting to meet the need of

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Belonging

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What is the lowest need in Maslows heirarchy?

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Physiological

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Which statement about motivation is true?

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Motivation energizes and directs behavior

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Burning you toast, having trouble opening an e-mail attachment, breaking a glass, and running late for a appointment are all examples of

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Hassles

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Research on the effects of stress on immune system suggests which of the following?

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Suppression of immune system functioning by stress can apparently continue even after the stress itself is over

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Which of the following major life events on the College Undergraduate Stress Scale has the highest number of life change units

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Being raped

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Which level of Abraham Maslows hierarchy is epitomized by the U.S. Armys slogan "Be all that you can be"?

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Self-actualization

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Seira is very pleasant and likes to keep the peace. She finds it difficult to express emotions and internalizes her anger. She has few friends and spends a lot of time alone. According to research, Siera...

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Type C personality

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According to Maslow, a person who wants to become self-actualized must first satisfy

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Primary needs such as food and safety.

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Bill hasn't eaten for four days and is very hungry. A friend offers to take him to lunch or to a new Arnold Schwartzennegger movie that she knows Bill wants to see. The drive theory of motivation would predict?

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Bill will select the lunch

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Shontia works at a day care center. The pay is low and the hours are long, but she loves being around children and has no desire to look for a higher paying job. Shontias motivation apprears to be

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Intrinsic

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Levon has a Type B personality, which of the following is most likely?

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Levon is slow to anger

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Bob tells Jan that he is feeling fine, but Jan doesn't believe him. What should she focus on to have the BEST chance of identifying any emotions Bob might be hiding

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His facial expressions

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Research has consistently shown that having a good ___ is of critical importance in a persons ability to cope with stressors

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Social support system

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The ___ approach to motivation suggest a connection between internal physical states and outward behavior

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Drive-reduction

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Which of following is the correct definition of cognitive dissonance?

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A state of tension that occurs when a person;s behavior does not correspond to his or her attitude

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Ralph, a white student who grew up in Maine, is about to enter the University of Southern California on a athletic scholarship. He is aware that many of his teammates will be African American and assumes that they will dislike him and ostracize him. Ralphs attitude is best described as

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Prejudice

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Which statement best describes an important finding in Milgrams classic research

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People will easily obey an authority figure and do harm to others

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It is 1951 , and you required to participate in a perception experiment. You join seven others seated in a room. You are shown a 10-inch test line and must choose the line that matches it in length from a choice of three lines. The experimenter, Soloman Asch is studying

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Conformity

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After a group of gang members learned that their friend had died in a seemingly random accident, several friends started blaming a rival gang for the death. Even though there was no evidence whatsoever that the death had been intentional, the more the friends talked, the more passionate they became in their belief that an act of revenge was necessary. What concept from social psychology may contribute to an act of violent revenge in this case?

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Groupthink

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Sarah found her soul mate. Jon, when she moved to a small town in Florida, accordin to research in interpersonal attraction, the most likely the most likely explanation for them to "find" each other is

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Proximity

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In Zimbardos prison study, male college students agreed to participate in a two week experiment to discover what would happen when they took on the roles of prisoners and guards. After the prisoners staged a revolt, the researchers found that

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The guards became more aggresive

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Herbie and Irene have been married for almost 55 years. Through it all they remained committed to each other and have been as close as two people can be. Over the years the passion has waned but they still stayed together. Sternberg would call this type of love

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Companionate

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What is a difference between obedience and conformity?

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In obedience there is a different in status between the one who obeys and the one who makes the request

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Social psychology is the scientific study of how a persons behavior, thoughts, and feelings are influenced by

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The real, imagined, or implied presence of others

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A group of four friends, two men and two women are out for an evening on the town. I'd like to go to the bookstore and get coffee, one of the women says Nah lets go over to that club and have drinks while we listen to the band. One of the men replies. What does Solomon Asch research suggest will be the likely outcome?

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The group will probably go to the club as Asch found that women tend to conform more than men when a public response is required

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Luis picks up a pack of cigarettes and reads :Cigarette smoking is harmful to your health" Which of the following statements would lead one to believe Luis is experiencing cognitive dissonance?

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"I know these cigarettes are killing me, but i just can't stop"

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Many people hang up on telemarketers, but others will listen politely to their pitches even if they are not interested in the product. Telemarketers know that anyone who agrees to listen is more likely to buy the product, thank to the ___ phenomenon

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Foot in the door

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Which factor significantly decreased the likelihood of conformity in Soloman Asch's studies?

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One confederate gave a correct response

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What term do psychologists use for the phenomenon that occurs when people are less likely to aid a person in trouble if there are other people around who are also potential helpers?

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Bystander effect

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Imagine 100 individuals are asked to take part in replication of Milgrams famous study on obediance. How are these 100 people likely to respond?

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The majority would administer 450 volts as instructed

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Luther operates a small nightclub that specializes in soul music and features up and coming African American sining groups. He actively discourages white couples from coming in and always gives them the worst seats if they insist on being admitted. Luther's behavior is best described as

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Discrimination

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"Birds of a feather" is a phrase that refers to

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Similarity

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Vince has always believed children deserve the best prenatal care available. During a class discussion, he hears the first of several speakers express very negative attitudes toward spending tax money on prenatal care for the poor. When it is his turn to speak, he voices an opinion more in keeping with the previous speakers. Vince's behavior is an example of

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Conformity

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Dave believes all college professors are irritable, impatient, and uninterested in whether students learn. His belief is an example of

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A stereotype

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A bank loan officer thinks people who speak with an accent are lazy; consequently, he refuses to grant them loans. The loan officer's belief is an example of ___. His refusal to grant them loans is an example of

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Prejudice; discrimination

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Mahmoud was just told that his father has cancer. Mahmouds first response is that there must be a mistake and he demands that the doctor repeat his tests. Which defense mechanism is at work here?

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Denial

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According to Rogers, anxiety and neurotic behavior result from

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A mismatch between the real self and ideal self

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Dr. Jackson is constantly late for her classes and often shows up late for her office hours, leaving students waiting in the hallway outside her door for nearly an hour at times. Using the fivefactor model, which dimension would show a very low score for Dr. Jackson?

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Conscientiousness

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"If it feels good, do it" best describes as

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Id

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There were three friends. Maybe you have heard of them! Harry was rational, logical, and cunning. Hermione was rule oriented, moral, and always ethical. Ron was pleasure seeking, found it hard to delay gratification, and usually just did what he wanted. According to Freud, Harry was mostly

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Ego

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When Candace ordered a hot fudge sundae and a diet soda, she told herself that the calories from the ice cream really were not a big deal because the diet soda sort of balanced it all out. Which of Freud's defense mechanisms is motivating Candace?

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Rationalization

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What are the Big Five personality traits?

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Openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism

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Which of the following statements describes the relationship between temperament and personality?

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Temperament, which we are born with, is the basis upon which one's personality it built

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To explain a person personality, behaviorists would look to

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The early experiences of rewards and punishments for certain behavior

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When Freud referred to the sexual drive of babies and young children to what was he really referring?

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The fact that the children focus on their bodies to give them physical pleasure

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A baseball players son is quite talented; he has received lots of awards over the years. When he gets up to bat he expects to get a hit, and when he is in the field he expects to make every catch. According to Bandura, what characteristic does this young man seem to have?

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Self-efficacy

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Shanda is afraid of failing one of her final exams. This is primarily because she thins that no matter how much studying she does, it will not help; her professor is known for giving hard exams. Cognitive theorists would suggest that Shanda

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Has an external locus of control

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Four year old Larry squeezes between his mommy and daddy as they sit together on the couch. He cuddles with mommy and pushes daddy away. This illustrates which Freudian concept?

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Oedipus complex

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Tinas boss gives her a bad review, making Tina feel lousy. When she arrives at home, she yells at her husband and children. Tina is likely displaying

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Displacement

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Darlas father went to prison when she was four years old, following numerous domestic violence incidents with Darlas mother. Although Darla does not remember the violence, she is fearful of men and avoids intimate relationships. Freud would suffest that the problem lies with Darlas

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Unconscious mind

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Dan plays the trumpet, is on the debate team, bites his nails, and chew gum. Freud might say Dan was fixated in the ___ stage

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Oral

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Jeremy has been having an affair with another woman. One afternoon his wife came home later than usual and Jeremy became angry, accusing his wife of infidelity. Which defense mechanism is behind Jeremy's accusation?

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Projection

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According to Freud, the stage in which children develop a marked attachment to the parent of the opposite sex and become jealous of the same sex parent is the

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Phallic stage

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According to Freud and his followers, what is the most significant event that occurs during the anal stage of psycho-sexual development?

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The child is toilet trained

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Young Bart says to his friend. "what do you want to play at recess today, war or forts?" His comrade, Yevgeni, replies, "Why don't we try something different today and play with the girls?" Completely aghast, Bart yells back, "Are you crazy?? Girls have COOTIES! Which stage of personality development is Bart likely in?

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Latency

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Miguel has a great job, is well educated, and has a loving family. Despite these positive aspects of his life, he experiences anxiety every day. When asked by his therapist the reason for his anxiety, he says "I don't know why. I don't have any reason to feel anxious, yet I worry all the time. The therapist describes Miguel as having __ anxiety

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Free floating

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A person who is suffering from disordered thinking, bizarre behavior, and hallucinations and who is unable to distinguish between fantasy and reality is likely suffering from

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Schizophrenia

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Shelley is diagnosed with schizophrenia. She believes that she is a powerful person who can save the world. Shelley is experiencing

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Delusions of grandeur

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Marty is moody, manipulative, unstable, lacks a clear sense of identity, and often clings to others. He wants to have close relationships but is unable to do so because he is untrusting of others. Marty is suffering from

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Borderline

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John has made a career of stealing older peoples retirement money by taking advantage of their trust and selling them phony retirement investments. John explains that he has done nothing wrong, if these people were not so greedy, they would not be so eager to invest in his phony schemes. In his mind, his victims got exactly what they deserve. Johns behavior and attitude are typical of someone with __ personality disorder

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Antisocial

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Jenny has an intense interest in food but eats sparingly and with disgust. She has an intense fear of becoming obese, and even though she looks emaciated, she still clains she "feels fat: and refuses to eat enough to maintain even a minimal normal body weight for her frame. She is most likely suffering from

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Anorexia nervosa

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Dave, a graduate student, has difficulty talking to groups. Unfortunately, he has chosen a career in which he must speak to large groups of people. The night before a presentation he tosses and turns, and the resulting lack of sleep makes the situation worse. When he makes a presentation, he often becomes confused and stumbles over his words. As a result, he feels worthless and miserable. Which two criteria of abnormal behavior are most useful in analyzing this case?

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Subjective discomfort and inability to function normally

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Nick was admitted to a mental institution because he claimed he was the king of an alien race that would soon return to earth to dominate mankind. He claimed to be in constant communication with these aliens and helping to plan for their return. His symptoms are known as

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Delusions

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A client lies on a couch with the therapist sitting out of sight behind her. The therapist gets to know the clients problems through free association and transference. This is an example of ___ therapy

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Psychonanalytic

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Manny has such an intense fear of flying insects that he hardly ever goes outside his house during the summer months. He is probably suffering from a

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Phobia

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Each day, while Sid is sitting at his desk at work, he continually thinks about germs. Each time this occurs, he washes his hands. Sid probably suffers from

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Obsessive-compulsive disorder

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A cognitive therapist is working with a depressed client. Which of the following causes is likely focus of this therapists intervention?

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Negative interpretations of life events

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Every time Jared opens his cigarette case or uses his lighter, he gets a painful electric shock, Jarrads friends and family have been asked not to give him any cigarettes or light any cigarettes for him, so he must use his own lighter if he wants to smoke. Jarrad loses his desire to smoke, thank to

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Aversion Therapy

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Lulu sees a professional once a month to manage the medication she is taking to help alleviate the symptoms of her anxiety disorder. The type of therapy Lulu is undergoing is called

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Biomedical therapy

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An affective disorder that includes both depression and mania is known as __ disorder

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Bipolar

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A therapist challenges what she sees as her clients irrational and self-defeating thoughts. Her goal is to help her client change theses thoughts into more rational, helpful, positive thoughts. In addition, she wants to help her client develop strategies that can be used to cope with future problems. She is probably a ___ therapist

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Cognitive-behavioral

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Nick is admitted to a mental institution because he hears voices talking to him that no one else can hear, and he sees demons attacking him, though no one else could see anything near him. Nicks symptoms are known as

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Hallucinations

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Edward starts to worry about telling his therapist about his drinking. He is afraid that the therapist will get made at him like his mother did in the past. Edward has started relating to his therapist as he related to his mother. Edward is experiencing

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Transference

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Which of the following is a characteristic of major depression?

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Diminished interest in daily activities

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Judys therapist listens to her without interruption and judgment. She provides Judy with warmth and respect, without any conditions attached. Her therapist is demonstrating

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Unconditional positive regard

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Craig is currently in therapy to help him stop smoking. His therapist is using learning techniques to help him modify his smoking habit and develop more desirable behaviors. Craigs therapist is using

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Selective thinking

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When a patient arrives in the emergency room, he is restless and irritable with unlimited energy and a rapid rate of speech. The attending psychiatrist believes the patient has taken cocaine or amphetamines and admits him for observation. The next day the symptoms are the same. What condition with symptoms that are similar to those associated with amphetamine use might the psychiatrist now consider as a condition that is relevant to the diagnosis?

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Mania

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