According to the Tarasoff ruling, what should a therapist do if a client threatens to attack someone?
a. Maintain the client's statement in complete confidentiality.
b. Commit the client to a mental hospital
c. Warn the person who was threatened.
d. Report the incident to the police.
c
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A. Illness Perception Questionnaire B. Illness and Personality Questionnaire C. Illness Resilience Questionnaire D. Illness Management Questionnaire
In general, when it comes to helping others, males tend to be more helpful than females in many situations. In which of the following situations are males probably NOT more helpful?
a. Helping a stranger who rides his bike directly into a stop sign by calling for an ambulance b. Helping to evacuate a museum after an imminent bomb threat is announced by running through the museum halls and calling out to people c. Helping a group of strangers who are trying to unload large ski equipment from their car by volunteering to hold doors open for them d. Helping to teach an autistic child to read by volunteering on an ongoing, weekly basis at a local facility
A researcher is conducting a study on factors that persuade individuals to support feminism. Which important question of social psychology does this study address?
A. Why do stereotypes and prejudices exist and persist? B. Is personality or environment more influential? C. What are the benefits and drawbacks of living in groups? D. Are humans special?
Which of the following is a situation in which deception would be considered justified according to the American Psychological Association?
A. A researcher wants to determine if telling people that they are homosexual increases their chances of dropping out of college, so participants are randomly assigned to be told that they are either heterosexual or homosexual based on a personality test and then followed for one year to determine if they quit college. B. A researcher decides that it will take too much time to describe the true purpose of his study to participants, so he requests the use of deception. C. A researcher wants to determine if social isolation impacts tendency to donate to charity, so participants are randomly assigned to be left out of an online ball-passing game while being told that the game is just about cooperation. D. In order to determine if a drug causes seizures, participants are unknowingly given a drug dissolved in juice that they think they are consuming for a taste-comparison task.