Which of the following has been shown to reduce stigma around the mentally ill?
A. Educating people that a mental illness is a "real" brain disorder
B. Referring to a mental illness as a "mental disease"
C. Increasing contact with individuals who have a mental illness
D. Applying labels, such as "schizophrenic" or "bipolar," to individuals
Answer: C
You might also like to view...
Which of the following supports the idea that babbling is innate?
a. Parents can encourage babbling by responding to their babies' babbling sounds. b. Babbling is related to later language and reading skills. c. Deaf children babble using gestures that are similar to the babbling sounds of children who can hear. d. Cultural background influences what sounds a child will babble.
The repeated reproduction technique used in memory studies involves
A. the same participants remembering some information at longer and longer intervals after learning the information. B. different groups of participants remembering some information across different periods of time after learning the information. C. the same participants remembering some information for as many trials as it takes to recall all of the information correctly. D. the same participants recalling some information many times but, each time, receiving different retrieval cues to assist their recall.
You go to your therapist for the first time and she tells you to lie on a couch in a slightly darkened room. She then asks you to talk about anything that comes to mind, no matter how trivial it may seem. What kind of psychotherapy are you undergoing?
a. systematic desensitization c. flooding b. traditional psychoanalysis d. person centered therapy
Which of the following terms explains why the human brain develops before the reproductive system?
A) Spinal cord dysplasia B) Prenatal gender differentiation C) Cephalocaudal pattern D) Differentiation of the lobes of the brain