One key factor of posttraumatic stress disorder is
a. exposure to traumatic events where a person experienced, witnessed, or confronted an event involving actual or threatened death or serious injury to oneself or someone else.
b. symptoms lasting two days to four weeks.
c. attempts to separate from persons related to the dramatic situation resulting in separation anxiety disorder.
d. development of social phobia.
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Among American researchers, parenting that uses shame and withdrawal of love has been described by the term ____
a. emotional abuse b. emotional manipulation c. psychological control d. social damage
While taking the Minnesota Multiphasic
Personality Inventory, Vince notices that it contains certain questions that are asked several times in different ways. He asks his daughter, who is a graduate student in psychology, why that is. What is his daughter likely to say? a) Truly psychotic individuals expect to find "strange" items on tests. b) Those items contain hidden content that is not apparent to normal people. c) Some items are used to determine if test takers are trying to "fake" the test by not reading. d) The MMPI contains a number of experimental items that are used in developing future versions of the test.
The research conducted by psychologists involves
a. the validation of commonsense beliefs in predicting everyday experiences. b. the systematic use of commonsense beliefs in solving new problems. c. gathering information through direct observation. d. a reliance on subjective opinions and rationalizations.
Alisha is employed as an air traffic controller. Which of the following abilities would be vital for Alisha?
A) The ability to individually respond to specific auditory, visual, or tactile stimuli B) The ability to consistently maintain a behavioral response for continuous and repetitive activity C) The capacity to maintain quick and enhanced behavioral responses to involuntary stimuli D) The capacity for mental flexibility that allows her to shift the focus of attention and move between tasks which have different cognitive requirements