University students often develop illness as the end of the semester draws near. Based on his research, Jamie Pennebaker would suggest that universities might reduce the number of ill students by:
A) reframing final examinations as a challenge by offering prizes to those students who score at the top of their class.
B) inoculating students to difficult final examinations by increasing the rigor of the midterms.
C) offering stress-reduction activities such as Bring Your Pet to School Day.
D) encouraging students keep a journal in which they record their thoughts and feelings.
D) encouraging students keep a journal in which they record their thoughts and feelings.
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While a college student spends a day exploring in a fully conscious state of mindfulness meditation, a man in a hospital lies deep in a coma after surviving a horrendous traffic accident. Both of these individuals are
a. experiencing the third-person experience. b. experiencing different states of consciousness. c. exhibiting unconscious transference. d. exhibiting a non-REM sleep state.
Vygotsky’s emphasis on culture and social experience led him to __________
A) neglect the biological side of development B) overemphasize the role of heredity in cognitive change C) emphasize children’s independent efforts to make sense of their world D) place too much emphasis on children’s capacity to shape their own development
Research has shown that clinical experience increases only slightly the accuracy of one's clinical predictions. ALL BUT WHICH of the following did the textbook offer as an explanation for this finding?
a. The measures upon which mental health professionals base their predictions do not have high validity, so they are no more valid in experienced hands than in inexperienced ones. b. Once clinicians obtain job security, any enhanced accuracy from their experience is canceled out by a corresponding decrease in effort. c. Clinicians often receive no feedback about their predictions, so they cannot learn from their experience. d. Clinicians are biased toward remembering their accurate predictions and forgetting their inaccurate ones.
The FDA was given additional authority over dietary supplements in 2006 to set up
A. random safety checks. B. requirements for effectiveness. C. limits on television advertising. D. an "Adverse Events Reporting" process.