Define the concept of personality. Why is it important that psychologists study personality?
What will be an ideal response?
* Personality is a relatively stable pattern of behaving, feeling, and thinking that distinguishes one person from another.
* The response should include references about the importance of personality in predicting behavior.
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A psychologist is interviewing a client who reports having experienced a severe trauma; before making a diagnosis of posttraumatic stress disorder, the psychologist would want to find evidence that the client is experiencing
a. dissociative symptoms. b. persistent symptoms of increased arousal. c. depression. d. physical symptoms, such as headaches or stomach distress.
When partial reinforcement occurs, a response that is reinforced after some, but not all, correct responses __________.
A. will be more resistant to extinction than a response that receives continuous reinforcement (a reinforcer for each and every correct response) B. will be less resistant to extinction than a response that receives continuous reinforcement (a reinforcer for each and every correct response) C. will be more variable in its resistance to extinction than a response that receives continuous reinforcement (a reinforcer for each and every correct response) D. will be totally resistant to extinction, unlike a response that receives continuous reinforcement (a reinforcer for each and every correct response)
Eighteen-month-old Gavin has just learned 10 new words in the past week. This brings his total vocabulary to 30 words. Gavin is best described as
a. babbling. b. experiencing a vocabulary spurt. c. overextending. d. acquiring metalinguistic awareness.
Behavior therapy is said to have a present focus because it assumes that
a. past events do not lead to present problems. b. it is impossible to focus on the past. c. the problem only exists in the present. d. problems are only influenced by present conditions.