In factitious disorders, the patient
a. voluntarily makes up symptoms with no apparent motivation
b. is unaware that he/she is making up symptoms.
c. truly experiences symptoms with no apparent physical cause.
d. makes up symptoms in an effort to avoid work or to receive some other benefit.
a
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According to the introduction to Chapter 9,
a. the speaking vocabulary of the average North American is between 10,000 and 12,000 words. b. it would take about 2,000 times the age of the earth to say all the potential 20-word English sentences that could be generated. c. whereas memory is an active process, language comprehension is primarily passive. d. the term syntax refers to the sound of spoken language.
A meta-analysis of family therapy by Baucom et al. (1998) found that
a. family therapy appears helpful in reducing schizophrenia relapse. b. family therapy appears less effective than individual therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder. c. both of the above d. neither of the above
Compared to artificial concepts learned in science and math, natural concepts tend to be
a. easier to learn. b. very clear and well defined. c. fuzzy with unclear boundaries. d. good fits with a rigid classification system. e. biologically innate.
The laws of operant conditioning
(a) generalize across species,within limits (b) generalize across species, without limits (c) generalize across species, but only with respect to reinforcement, not extinction (d) do not generalize across species