We study how psychiatric disorders co-occur among unrelated people, non-twin siblings, dizygotic twins, and monozygotic twins so that we can learn about _____
a. the effect of genetics on mental health
b. the limbic system
c. the autonomic nervous system
d. implicit defense mechanisms
Answer: a.
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Which criticism has been applied to Piaget's stage theory of cognitive development?
A. Stages aren't distinct enough to capture the sudden jumps in qualitative reasoning that children go through. B. Piaget proposed too many stages of cognitive development in adolescence. C. The preoperational stage should really be divided into three substages. D. Piaget underestimated the ages at which children could master various cognitive tasks.
The problem of a correlation between two variables being dependent on another variable is called _____
a. the third variable problem b. causality c. directionality d. restrictive range
Sheri has been charged with the murder of a child that was in her care. When she was first brought in for questioning, she denied doing anything to hurt the child, but after 16 hours of questioning, she starts to believe that she did, in fact, hurt the child (in actuality, she didn't). What type of false confession is this according to Kassin and Wrightsman (1985)?
A. compliant false confession B. externalized false confession C. internalized false confession D. voluntary false confession
A bottom-up processing strategy is best for certain types of tasks because the top-down strategy can keep you from processing important _____
a) concepts. b) details. c) expectations. d) gestalts.