"Insects make me itch. My brother collects them; he is 5 feet 10 inches tall. That's my favorite number. I dance and draw." Such speech illustrates which of the following symptoms of schizophrenia?
A) positive
B) negative
C) delusional
D) hallucinatory
Answer: A) positive
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A bank loan officer thinks that people who speak with an accent are lazy; consequently, he refuses to grant them loans. The loan officer's belief is an example of __________. His refusal to grant them loans is an example of __________.
A. discrimination; prejudice B. stereotyping; attribution C. attribution; stereotyping D. prejudice; discrimination
The “problem of _______________” refers to the problem associated with generalizing from events that occur regularly together, so much so that they seem to be causally related and are expected to hold in the future (even though there is no guarantee that they will not be disproven in the future.
a. deduction b. inference c. induction d. correlation
Psychologist Nalini Ambady asked people to watch three ten-second video clips of teachers they did not know and then rate these teachers
Compared to the year-end course evaluations made by actual students in the course, these intuitive ratings by these experimental participants a. showed a negative (inverse) correlation. b. showed a positive correlation. c. showed a zero correlation. d. set up a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Contrast the effects of benzodiazepines and buspirone. What effects are produced by each, and how are these effects produced in the brain? What risks for cross-tolerance with alcohol and other depressants exist for each?
What will be an ideal response?