Research by Lovaas (1987) has suggested that autistic children show the greatest intellectual and educational improvement when they are
A. placed in special education classrooms
B. placed in regular classrooms
C. treated in group therapy
D. treated with medication
B. placed in regular classrooms
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Social psychological research has repeatedly shown that people's common sense explanations for human behavior are often wrong. This illustrates the unifying theme from the textbook concerning the importance of
a. appreciating the influence of culture. b. multifactorial causation. c. logic. d. empiricism.
Knowing which psychologist founded which school of thought illustrates __________memory
a. skill b. procedural c. episodic d. semantic
You observe the lady standing next to you at the bus stop. Based on her body language and facial expression, you assume she is upset about something. Identify the limbic structure that is MOST likely to have helped you assess her emotional state.
A) the amygdala B) the hippocampus C) the nucleus accumbens D) the thalamus
Martha and Stan are newlyweds. They see a therapist because Martha is afraid of sexual intercourse
The therapist asks Martha exactly which acts make her anxious, constructs a hierarchy of those threatening acts, teaches her to relax, and asks her to imagine each threatening scene in the hierarchy and use the relaxation technique to reduce her anxiety as she imagines each scene from the bottom to the top of her hierarchy. The therapist is using _______. a. desensitization b. behavioral contracting c. free association d. positive regard