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100
“Hal got hit by a car when he was jogging? Really? Well, it doesn't surprise me,” Erin commented. “He never wears reflective gear, so I bet the driver couldn't even see him.” Erin's response illustrates an attributional pattern called:
What is blaming the victim
100
Sigmund Freud is to _____ as Carl Rogers is to _____.
What is psychoanalytic; humanistic
100
Heather is in her fourth month of a healthy pregnancy, and she has started to experience _____, which means that she can feel the fetus moving.
What is quickening
100
Sid is seriously ill, and his doctor has warned him that his chances of survival are not good. When Sid's wife visits him in the hospital, Sid tells her that he is feeling much better and expects to be home in a couple of days and back to work in a matter of weeks. According to Kübler-Ross's model of dying, Sid is in which stage of the dying process?
What is denial
100
The observable characteristics of an organism as determined by the interaction of genetic and environmental factors.
What is phenotype
200
_____ is primarily aimed at relieving or regulating the emotional impact of a stressful situation.
What is emotion-focused coping
200
The hormones that are released by the adrenal cortex and that play a key role in the body's response to long-term stressors are called:
What is corticosteroids
200
Justin is hearing voices that he believes are coming from the Central Intelligence Agency. He is extremely suspicious and distrustful of his neighbors, whom he suspects of actually being agents of a foreign country. Justin appears to be experiencing the _____ type of schizophrenia.
What is paranoid
200
Ruth was hospitalized after a concerned co-worker went to her house to find out why Ruth had unexpectedly failed to show up at work. When the co-worker peered through a window, she saw Ruth standing motionless in the middle of her living room, much like a mannequin. Ruth appears to be experiencing the _____ type of schizophrenia.
What is catatonic
200
One finding of the National Comorbidity Survey Replication is that the median age of onset in years for mood disorders was:
What is 30
300
____ is an eating disorder in which a normal-weight person engages in binge eating and then purges the excessive food consumption by self-induced vomiting or by the misuse of laxatives or enemas.
What is bulimia nervosa
300
A list of specific anxiety-producing scenes, arranged from least to most anxiety-provoking, that are related to the person's fear or phobia.
What is an anxiety hierarchy
300
_____ can be described as the use of psychological techniques to increase understanding and treat emotional, behavioral, and interpersonal problems.
What is psychotherapy
300
Which intelligence theorist believed that intelligence test scores were useful primarily to identify children who needed special help?
Who is Binet?
300
According to the _____ of panic disorder, people with panic disorder are not only oversensitive to physical sensations, they also tend to misinterpret and exaggerate the meaning of their experience and may be victims of their own illogical thinking.
What is catastrophic cognitions theory
400
In regards to BEHAVIORS: Classical conditioning involves _____, while operant conditioning involves _____.
What is reflexive behaviors; voluntary behaviors
400
After Fernanda buys stock in a “hot” new start-up company, the company fails and she loses all of her money. Fernanda no longer invests in start-up companies. This is an example of:
What is negative punishment
400
Despite attempts by his friends who have tried to reason with him, Simon is convinced that a news announcer on TV is talking in a special code about him and his thoughts. Simon appears to be experiencing delusions of:
What is reference
400
Psychologist Claude Steele coined the term _____ to refer to the belief that you might be evaluated in terms of a negative stereotype about a group to which you belong, especially when that belief creates anxiety or self-doubt.
What is stereotype threat
400
After Lauren broke up with him, Evan told his friends how happy he was that Lauren was out of his life. Nevertheless, Evan keeps thinking of things that he left at Lauren's apartment and calls her or stops by her apartment several times a week. Each time he sees her, he is insulting and unpleasant and tells Lauren that he hopes he never sees her again. Which of the following ego defense mechanisms best explains Evan's behavior?
What is reaction formation
500
It was _____ who said, “To be human means to have inferiority feelings. But in the mentally healthy person this inferiority feeling acts as a motive for productivity, as a motive for attempting to overcome obstacles, to maintain oneself in life.”
Who is Alfred Adler
500
Wendy often avoids trying or learning new tasks because she sees herself as inadequate, weak, and helpless. Alfred Adler would probably suggest that Wendy has developed _____ that keeps her from striving for mastery and self-improvement.
What is an inferiority complex
500
In Carl Rogers's personality theory, the term _____ refers to a condition in which a person's emotions and experiences are consistent with his sense of self.
What is congruence
500
According to Piaget, a mental representation of the world is called a:
What is a schema
500
Elizabeth is in the fifteenth week of her pregnancy. In terms of prenatal development, Elizabeth's pregnancy is in the _____ period.
What is the fetal period
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