Murnane and Levy (1997) found that what percentage of 17-year-olds could not read or do math at the level needed to perform the types of new jobs that are being created today?
a. 50%
b. 35%
c. 20%
d. 5%
Answer: A
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Regarding a comparison of the talk-oriented therapies, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. Cognitive therapies tend to be action therapies less concerned with insight than with helping people change harmful thinking patterns. b. Freud claimed that his patients could expect through therapy to only change their "hysterical misery into common unhappiness.". c. In client-centered therapy, the therapist tends to take a position of authority, stating what the patient's dreams, thoughts, or memories "mean.". d. Better self-knowledge was the goal of traditional psychoanalysis.
The three main components of working memory are ___
a. verbal storage, spatial storage, and executive control b. verbal storage, spatial storage, and conceptual storage c. spatial storage, conceptual storage, and executive control d. verbal storage, conceptual storage, and executive control
What do the textbook authors identify as the most problematic element of Wakefield's definition of mental
disorder? A) Most mental disorders do not cause distress. B) We have yet to discover the dysfunction that underlies most mental disorders. C) He describes mental disorders as mental conditions. D) The role of biology is not recognized.
The rationale for the retardation of acquisition test is that the rate of acquisition of a
a. CR should be retarded if the CS is already a conditioned inhibitor. b. UR should be retarded if the CS is already a conditioned inhibitor. c. CR should be facilitated if the CS is already a conditioned inhibitor. d. UR should be facilitated if the CS is already a conditioned inhibitor.