Your best friend just failed his psychology exam and is feeling distraught. A good reframe to offer, to help to console him and change his thinking, would be __________
a) convincing him that it is all meaningless
b) helping him find the humor in the situation
c) reminding him how this could be a valuable learning experience regarding how to improve his studying
d) persuading him to ask the professor if he could do some extra credit work to improve his grade
Answer: c
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Robin has moved to a new town during her sophomore year in high school. In order to find a new group of friends, she joins the staff of the school paper and tries out for the girls' swim team. These efforts are examples of which of the following?
a. Developmental stage b. Core pathology c. Psychosocial crisis d. Coping behavior
Suppose that you have a mental image of your favorite male actor. If that image is stored in a propositional code, the representation would emphasize
a. spatial relationships, including information about angles and lines. b. a correspondence between the mental imagery and perceptual imagery. c. a language-like description. d. spatial relationships for the actor's general shape, but a language-like description for the details of his face.
The typical speed of an action potential is:
a. dependent on the intensity of the excitatory signals b. between 2 and 200 miles per hour c. approximately the speed of light (186,000 miles/second) d. approximately the speed of sound (740 miles/hour)
The encoding of survival-related information is effective because it often requires participants to engage in:
A) extensive planning. B) constructing a fear hierarchy. C) chunking. D) sensory integration.