Which of the following is the persecutory type of psychotic delusion?
A. A familiar person is actually a double.
B. You are a famous or important person.
C. People are out to get you.
D. A body part has changed in some impossible way.
Answer: C
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You've just read a case history of an individual. This person has a difficult time relating to other people, has very serious problems in communication, and spends a lot of his time rocking back and forth. Which of the following is the most appropriate title for this case history?
A. "Autism: A Serious Developmental Disorder" B. "Mental Retardation: Lower Than Average Intelligence" C. "A Case History of Munchausen Syndrome" D. "The Effects of Avoidance Disorder"
Research on interventions has shown that
a. interventions that target specific groups, such as the elderly, women, and minority groups are considered too specialized and will not likely be utilized in the future. b. determinants of health behaviors include individual level processes as well as processes at the family societal level. c. the effectiveness of psychological interventions is still weak, especially compared to medical interventions. d. cultural level differences are minimal beyond the distinction between collectivist and individualist cutlures.
An automatic shift of attention toward novel events is referred to as:
a. habituation b. desensitization c. an orienting response d. conditioned inhibition
Sir Thomas Young proposed the existence of only three color receptors. How would he explain our sensation of so many other colors?
a. He could not explain our sensation of other colors, although many years later another scientist did. b. All other colors are additive or subtractive combinations of the colors he identified. c. Our brains "learn" to sense other colors, but only after experience with the first three. d. All other colors were afterimages of the three colors he identified.