Dr. Moshiri has a new patient who exhibits signs of having multiple distinct, separate personalities. If she wants to ensure the best possible treatment outcome for this patient, the action she should be most careful to avoid is
A. placing the patient on medication.
B. using cognitive restructuring to improve the patient's anxiety.
C. giving the appearance of favoring one personality over the others.
D. telling the patient that they likely have dissociative identity disorder.
Answer: D
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Which scenario illustrates the social cognitive theory of gender-typed behavior?
A. Four-year-old Sean states to his father, "Someday I will be a dad, but I will never be a mom and have babies." B. Four-year-old Sharon exclaims to her mother, "Mommy, look! I baked a cake, just like you do!" C. Three-year-old Dan feels proud of himself as he flexes his biceps and says to himself, "Look at my big muscles!" D. Three-year-old Nila shouts at her father, "Go away daddy; I want mommy!"
An awareness of one's mortality, the responsibility that comes with the freedom to choose, being alone in one's own private world, and the need to create meaning in one's life are the
a. psychosexual conflicts, according to psychoanalytic therapy. b. components of the ideal self, according to client-centered therapy. c. universal human challenges, according to existential therapy. d. unrealistic beliefs, according to rational-emotive behavior therapy.
Which of the following is not likely to be included on a questionnaire designed to collect data about children's behavior?
a. peer nominations c. self-reporting b. a measure of IQ d. descriptions of behaviors
All of the following are threats to the internal validity of a study except
a. failure to randomly assign participants. b. assigning participants based on gender. c. varying only the independent variable. d. randomly changing several aspects of the study in addition to the independent variable.