A client at a mental institution is rewarded for improved grooming habits with coupons he can exchange for special foods or weekend passes. This technique is called
a. modeling.
b. negative reinforcement.
c. a token economy.
d. systematic desensitization.
e. flooding.
c. a token economy.
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Professor McLeod says, "Psychological factors can influence physical processes by producing physiological changes in the immune system. For hundreds of years, health care professionals have understood this connection between psychological and physical factors. However, psychological conditions cannot influence neural and biological systems. Additionally, a person's beliefs about the causes, symptoms, duration, and curability of a disease do not affect that person's willingness to seek treatment and follow through with it." Which part of Professor McLeod's statement is accurate?
a. Psychological factors can influence physical processes by producing physiological changes in the immunsystem. b. For hundreds of years, health care professionals have understood this connection between psychological and physical factors. c. Psychological conditions cannot influence neural and biological systems. d. A person's beliefs about the causes, symptoms, duration, and curability of a disease do not affect that person's willingness to seek treatment and follow through with it."
Your friend's grandmother is very sweet and energetic for her age at 72 years old. But your friend says her grandmother never takes care of herself: she is always driving other seniors to their doctor's appointments or visiting sick friends. Your friend is becoming worried because her grandmother's arthritis is getting worse and she is becoming depressed. The grandmother appears to be
A. high in communion. B. low in communion. C. high in unmitigated communion. D. none of the above
The original learned helplessness experiments placed dogs in a harness where they were exposed to electric shocks. Later, the dogs were placed in a shuttle-box where they experienced more shocks. The dogs that exhibited learned helplessness
A. quickly learned to escape the shocks in a shuttle box. B. failed to escape the shocks in the shuttle box. C. escaped the shocks in the shuttle box, but only after several trials. D. escaped the shuttle-box shocks, but then showed signs of helplessness.
K.C., who was injured in a motorcycle accident, remembers facts like the difference between a strike and a spare in bowling, but he is unaware of experiencing things like hearing about the circumstances of his brother's death, which occurred two years before the accident. His memory behavior suggests
a. intact semantic memory but defective episodic memory. b. intact procedural memory but defective semantic memory. c. intact episodic memory but defective semantic memory. d. intact episodic memory but defective procedural memory.