What type of death often shatters the survivors' assumptions that the world is benevolent, just, and predictable, and the psychological effects are evident for years afterward?

a. unavoidable death
b. expected death
c. sudden death
d. anticipated death


Answer: C

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a. rehearsal b. instruction c. modeling d. feedback

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Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)

1. Psychoanalysis assumes that we are born with aggressive and sexual urges that are repressed during childhood. 2. Traditional psychoanalysis involves years of therapy. 3. The portrayal of traditional psychoanalysis as involving the client lying on a couch with a therapist sitting behind the client is largely a Hollywood creation. 4. During psychoanalysis, the therapist challenges the distorted thoughts and beliefs of the client. 5. When an analyst begins to correctly interpret the underlying meaning of the client's psychological problems, the client's resistance to the therapy breaks down.

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Genotypic influences on the child's self-concept are

a. impossible to estimate. b. stronger for boys than for girls. c. stronger for girls than for boys. d. very low for either girls or boys.

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Given the current research on recovered memories, one should be skeptical if a person says that ________

a. she cannot remember an event from when she was 2 years old. b. she is frequently bothered by vivid memories of a traumatic event that she experienced. c. he or she has memories from the first year or two of life. d. her amnesia resulted from a blow to the head during a car accident.

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