People are leaving a big festival and see a man lying on the sidewalk.  No one stops to check on him. This is likely because of ______.

A. social loafing
B. process loss
C. diffusion of responsibility
D. coordination loss


Answer: C

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The term probable maintaining conditions is necessary because

a. these are the ones involved in symptom substitution. b. a client's introspection is rarely correct. c. behavioral causes are fundamentally probabilistic. d. these are the ones that are likely to be influencing the behavior.

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Although sex is an important part of people's lives, for many years, discussion of sexual topics was taboo. In the recent history of psychology, who first made sex an appropriate sexual topic for discussion?

a. Alfred Kinsey, when he published his research findings about human sexual practices b. William Masters and Virginia Johnson, when they published their findings on the human sexual response c. Sigmund Freud, when he made the libido an important part of his psychoanalytic theory d. Helen Singer Kaplan, when she wrote about desire and sexual readiness

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What concepts did Freud use to explain things we say or do that we cannot explain or understand?

a. Freudian slips and fixation b. unconscious forces and unconscious motivation c. conscious forces and fixation d. free association and unconscious motivation

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Which model suggests that there are multiple causes of abnormal behavior?

a) eclectic b) multiaxial c) multiagent d) biopsychosocial

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