The central lesson of the Bridging Function and Dysfunction sections in your textbook is that
A) disordered social behavior is very difficult to treat.
B) disordered social behavior is best treated as very dissimilar from so-called normal behavior.
C) disordered social behavior is best treated with outpatient, rather than inpatient, care.
D) disordered social behavior often highlights and exaggerates normal psychological mechanisms.
Answer: D
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a. self-verification. b. self-enhancement. c. implicit egotism. d. self-handicapping.
What does Mowrer’s (1960) theory suggest about the learning of fear?
A. A person associates a stimulus with an unpleasant outcome, resulting in a fear response B. A person learns to avoid a feared stimulus, to reduce their fear response C. Relief at avoiding a feared stimulus acts as an incentive for further avoidance, D. All of the above
Which of these is not an operational definition of anxiety?
a. Heart rate b. Degree of nervousness on a math test c. Participants' ratings of their own anxiety on a 1 to 5 scale d. Scientist's rating of participants' anxiety on a 1 to 5 scale
Which of the following describes Weber's law?
A. What an individual sees and hears is completely dependent on her or his perception and desire. B. The size of a just noticeable difference in stimuli perception is a constant fraction of the intensity of the stimulus. C. Muscles control the shape of the eye's lens to adjust to viewing objects at different distances. D. The texture of a surface becomes more tightly packed together and dense as the surface moves to the background.