What characterizes the disorders listed on Axis I of the DSM-IV-TR diagnostic system?
a) They have a chronic course, without remittance.
b) They are temporary and cause personal distress.
c) They have medical conditions that are associated with them.
d) They are the result of failures in the use of defense mechanisms.
a
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Juan suffers from alcoholism and has not responded to other types of treatment. Juan's therapist suggests aversive conditioning in which Juan will take a nausea-inducing drug at the same time he sniffs beer. In this treatment strategy, the beer is the during conditioning and the after conditioning
a. unconditioned stimulus; neutral stimulus b. unconditioned stimulus; conditioned stimulus c. conditioned stimulus; neutral stimulus d. neutral stimulus; unconditioned stimulus e. neutral stimulus; conditioned stimulus
Tom wants to decrease his behavior of swearing. He arranges a contingency in which he will pay five dollars to his parents every day that he swears. What type of contingency has Tom arranged?
a. positive reinforcement b. negative reinforcement c. positive punishment d. negative punishment
Which statement BEST illustrates the role of top-down processing in taste perception?
A) Having a head cold diminishes a wine drinker's ability to judge flavour. B) Smelling the wine aids a wine drinker's ability to judge flavour. C) Knowing the wine's price affects a wine drinker's perception of its flavour. D) Wines that activate umami receptors will be judged as more savory than wines that do not.
What is the most commonly used intelligence for testing adolescents and adults?
A) Standford-Binet B) Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) C) Binet-Simon D) Raven's Progressive Matrices