Nicolette is an alcoholic who has been unable to control her drinking. She has lost her job, and her husband has divorced her. Finally, she entered therapy in an attempt to control her desire to drink. In this case, the best behavioral therapy technique to use in helping Nicolette eliminate her drinking problem would be:
a. aversion therapy
b. systematic desensitization
c. a token economy
d. negative reinforcement
A
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Which of the following is NOT one of the ways recommended in the textbook to apply punishment?
a. Both parents should be consistent in what they regard as misbehavior and punish this behavior every time it occurs and in the same way. b. If a parent punishes a child and then finds that the child was innocent, the parent should not say anything to the child in order to put the incident behind them. c. When parents use punishment, they should also reward an alternate, desired response for that situation. d. If you cannot punish an animal or young child immediately, wait for the next instance of misbehavior.
A psychologist concludes his method would be effective for teaching math to all third graders on the basis of testing it on a selected group of third graders with a control group for comparison. He is making use of
a. descriptive statistics. b. correlations. c. inferential statistics. d. z-scores.
Why is Piaget still much studied by psychologists?
a. His work is much more recent than many other theorists. b. His stages are very detailed compared to those of many other theorists. c. His ideas serve as the foundation of contemporary cognitive development. d. His ideas have all proven to be correct over many years.
Fusion with another person where one's own sense of identity and self are lost is called:
a. enmeshment b. fidelity c. identity diffusion d. generativity