The psychological treatment that has been found to have significant effectiveness in helping patients with borderline personality disorder centers on
a. regressing patients to the time in their lives when they experienced trauma
b. removing the reinforcing attention that they have received for their disordered behavior in the past.
c. enrolling them in a 12-step program such as Alcoholics Anonymous.
d. learning to cope with life stressors in a more effective manner.
d
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a. how frequently an event occurs in a population b. the number of guesses made about the event c. the accuracy of predictions about the event in the past d. the amount of information available to make a prediction
Which of these is an advantage of longitudinal research?
a. Longitudinal projects are time-consuming, lasting years. b. Practice affects confound data collected in later tests. c. Some children eventually drop out of the study. d. Long-term patterns of individual development are shown with much detail.
All of the following are examples of the substage of tertiary circular reactions except
a. infants at this stage are crawling. b. infants engage in trial-and error processes. c. infants have to physically try to see if one thing will fit inside another. d. infants' thinking is entirely overt.
Which of the following emotional theories states that emotions arise from physiological arousal?
a. James-Lange theory b. Cannon-Bard theory c. Schachter-Singer two-factor theory d. Lazarus’s cognitive-mediational theory