According to the posttraumatic model of dissociative identity disorder (DID), an abused child can more easily cope with everyday life by usually forgetting about the abusive incidents and by pretending that the abuse is happening to someone else. In behavioral terms, this self-deception can be conceptualized as a type of covert:
A) ?avoidance response.
B) ?form of learned helplessness.
C) ?attention-seeking device.
D) ?appetitive response.
A
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a. observable behaviors. c. learning and education. b. emotional and social development. d. quantitative change in development.
From early to middle adulthood, the death rate due to cancer
A) doubles. B) triples. C) multiplies fivefold. D) multiplies tenfold.
Leadership aimed at encouraging employees to exceed expectations and look beyond self-interest to help the organization better compete is called leadership
a. agentic b. communal c. transformational d. knowledge-based
Between the ages of 6 and 12, the Eustachian tube elongates and narrows. The result of this for children is that they
a. have greater attention spans. b. experience improved fine motor skills. c. have more problems with myopia. d. have fewer ear infections.