Susan complains that she is in an "addictive love relationship" in which she has to work very hard to get her partner to pay any attention to her. Chances are that her partner is reinforcing her on a _____ schedule
A) ?fixed ratio
B) ?variable ratio
C) ?fixed time
D) ?variable time
B
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Erikson's fifth stage of psychosocial development is called
a. integrity versus despair. b. intimacy versus isolation. c. identity versus identity diffusion. d. initiative versus guilt.
Candy is meeting her boyfriend's cousins at a family reunion. She remembers Cindy, Rick, Dirk, Denece, and Garth. But she forgets Tom, Nancy, David, and Imogene. What is the best explanation?
A. She found those cousins whose name she remembered as being friendlier. B. The cousins she remembered were introduced to her at the beginning and end of the reunion; the others were introduced in the middle of the reunion. C. She relied on nondeclarative encoding for the names she remembered. D. The cousins she did not remember were introduced to her at the beginning and end of the reunion; the others were introduced in the middle of the reunion.
A third grader who decides not to cheat on a test because if caught their parents would be displeased with them, is operating at the _____ level of Kohlberg's theory
a. postconventional c. preconventional b. nonconventional d. conventional
A therapist who is working with a client diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder decides to use stress inoculation training. Which of the following is likely to take place during this treatment?
a. First, the client is taught how certain thought patterns lead to anxiety, and is also taught how to cope with potential threats. Next, the client rehearses these coping skills and then applies them in various stressful conditions. b. The client is "flooded" or "imploded" with anxiety by being forced to remain in the most anxiety-provoking situation imaginable, thus decreasing the anxiety experienced in similar but less extreme situations. c. Unconscious conflicts that underlie the anxiety are explored in order to neutralize the anxiety at the most fundamental psychological level. d. more than one of the above