If a behavior interferes with a person's ability to function, then it is considered abnormal from the maladaptive approach.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
True
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Marian is severely depressed and wants to commit suicide. She feels guilty about the harm she may inflict on her mother because both her father and her mother's sister committed suicide. Which of the following statements describes the influence of familial suicides on Marian's suicidal ideation?
A. Marian's desire to commit suicide is independent of any suicides in her family's past. B. Evidence points to the correlation between familial suicide and Marian's increased risk for suicide. C. Research suggests that there is no correlation between risk for suicide and history of familial suicide. D. Marian is ten times more likely to commit suicide than someone from a family with no suicides.
Perceptual misconstruction is responsible for misleading or distorted perceptions known as
a. illusions. b. hallucinations. c. physiological nystagmus. d. sensory habituations.
Early infant blinking are (first few weeks of life):
a. purely reflexive b. intentional social signals c. defiant – allows babies to get their way d. produced when the nervous system is calm
Stella the giraffe has been trained to hold food in her mouth and pass it off to zoo visitors. She has been doing this trick almost every day for the last three years. According to the "instinctive drift" phenomenon, Stella is likely to
A. continue doing this behavior as long as she receives reinforcement. B. eventually stop performing the behavior despite reinforcement. C. get better at performing the trick over time. D. require less reinforcement for the trick over time.