Wendy went swimming in the ocean last week and became mildly fearful when she swallowed a lot of
water and felt as though she would drown. Just yesterday someone told her that a shark was seen in the
water at the same time she was swimming.
Now she is petrified of going into the ocean. This best
illustrates
A) the inability of the phobic person to direct their attention away from a feared object.
B) the "inflation effect.
C) the observational learning explanation for phobias.
D) classically conditioned generalization based on direct experience.
B
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a. proactive interference b. retroactive interference c. transfer-appropriate processing d. chunking
Albert Ellis focused on the __________ quality of his clients' beliefs
a. compulsive c. irrational b. depressed d. aggressive
Which of the following is true?
a. Test-retest reliability is determined by assessing the degree of relationship between scores on two different, equivalent tests b. Split-half reliability is determined by assessing the degree of relationship between scores on the same test, administered on two different occasions. c. Test-retest reliability is determined by assessing the degree of relationship between scores on the same test, administered on two different occasions. d. Inter-rater reliability is determined by assessing the degree of relationship between scores on two different, equivalent tests.
A psychologist tells a group of students who are touring a mental hospital that they are going to see a patient exhibit loose associations. What are the students likely to find when they meet this patient?
a) The staff removed the patient's restraints. b) The patient becomes sexually excited with ease. c) What the patient says will make little sense to them. d) Wandering the halls is the patient's primary symptom.