How do defense mechanisms contribute to psychopathology?
What will be an ideal response?
They reduce anxiety by helping the person push something painful or uncomfortable out of consciousness rather than dealing directly with the problem.
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With respect to health-promotion messages, tailored is to ______ as targeted is to ______.
A. group; individual B. individual; group C. gain-framed; loss-framed D. loss-framed; gain-framed
In a scatterplot, an outlier is one that
a. is far to the left of the display. b. is in the center of the display. c. is far from the regression line. d. is the largest value of Y.
Regarding polygraph testing, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. An innocent person may respond emotionally to the whole procedure. b. To minimize the effects of anxiety caused by the questioning process, skilled polygraph examiners use the guilty knowledge test. c. A guilty person is supposed to have an elevated response to the correct answer in the multiple choice series used during polygraph testing, while an innocent person responds the same to all four responses. d. The galvanic skin response component of polygraph testing measures the rise in body temperature when a person is lying.
What basic assumptions underlie the humanist therapies? What are the goals of humanist therapy, and how does the client-centered (nondirective) approach suggest therapists can help clients reach these goals?
What will be an ideal response?