As part of a class you are interviewing a five-year-old girl. You ask the child to explain how to cook breakfast and how to ride a bike. She doesn't seem to notice that her explanations do not make sense. Since you are familiar with social cognitive theory, you know that this child probably has not yet developed a mature ability of:
A. self-efficacy
B. self-analysis
C. schemes
D. purposeful behavior
Answer: B
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a. discover ways that the client's maladaptive behaviors are reinforced by the family. b. observe patterns of family interactions. c. restructure it by replacing maladaptive interactions with more effective and functional ones. d. resolve the primary conflict existing between the parents. e. reconstitute the marital subsystem.
In "Career Focus: Meet a Pediatrician," Dr. Gephart says that bad health in children is related to
A) gender. B) what part of the country the child lives in. C) socioeconomic status. D) all of the above.
A single-blind experiment isolates a causal variable by considering the experimenter's biases.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Which of the following disorders is NOT organized as part of the DSM-5's new category OCD related and trauma related disorders?
a) body dysmorphic disorder b) hoarding disorder c) obsessive-compulsive disorder d) panic disorder