Psychologist David Rosenhan illustrated the impact of psychiatric labeling in a study in which he and several colleagues
a. surveyed 5,000 Americans concerning their beliefs about mental illness.
b. surveyed 1,000 former patients of psychiatric facilities about the discrimination they faced after being discharged from the facility.
c. had themselves committed to mental hospitals with a diagnosis of "schizophrenia.".
d. went out on the streets and pretended to be mentally disturbed and videotaped the reactions of people passing by.
C
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a. psychoanalytic theory. b. essentialism. c. evolutionary psychology. d. social learning theory.
In the eleventh grade, Jaxson does not have a clue what he wants to do when he graduates from high school. An absence of either exploration or commitment is known in James Marcia's framework as identity __________.
A. diffusion B. moratorium C. development D. achievement
The more information you learn, the easier it becomes
a. to add new information to memory. b. to forget previously learned information. c. for interference and retrieval failure to occur. d. for a person to develop Alzheimer's disease or other forms of dementia.
Which of the following correlation coefficient values indicate the strongest relationship between two variables?
a. +.74 b. +.68 c. +.69 d. +.71