Early writings show that the Chinese, Egyptians, Hebrews, and Greeks often attributed abnormal behavior to __________.
A. poor parenting
B. physical disease
C. demonic possession
D. chemical imbalance in the brain
Answer: C
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severely disordered behavior, Courtney’s status would be considered ____.? a. ?normal b. ?moderately disordered c. ?psychological disorder, less severe d. ?psychological disorder, more severe
Ecological systems theory views the person as __________
A) a blossoming flower whose development is a genetically determined series of events that unfold automatically B) developing within a complex system of relationships affected by multiple levels of the surrounding environment C) a social being influenced primarily by observational learning or adult modeling D) a computer-like system that actively codes, transforms, and organizes information
Which of these was later found to be one of the problems with James' theory of
emotion? (a) A generalized arousal response is the same for many different stimuli, so feedback from the physiological response could not allow a person to distinguish among different emotional feelings. (b) His theory stated that the emotion is experienced prior to the physiological response to the stimulus, but experiments proved that the physiological response comes first. (c) The physiological response to an emotion-producing stimulus typically takes one or two seconds to appear, but the emotional feeling (for example, fear) occurs almost instantaneously. (d) Both A and B (e) Both A and C
When a parent tends to reinforce the sounds that a child makes that resemble real words and ignore those that do not, this exemplifies the principle of
A) language. B) habituation. C) shaping. D) object permanence.