Dr. Richards uses psychological testing, including feedback about testing results, both to assess his patients and to provide a brief therapeutic intervention. This practice is best described as
A. therapeutic assessment.
B. cognitive-behavioral assessment.
C. clinical assessment.
D. personality assessment.
A. therapeutic assessment.
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During the late 1960s, psychologists began to favor the cognitive approach, because they felt that the behaviorist approach
a. emphasized unobservable cognitive processes. b. overused Wundt's technique of introspection. c. placed too much emphasis on concepts such as reinforcement and observable responses. d. devoted too much research to the organization of memory.
Nine-year-old Saraya is skateboarding with her older brother when her mother comes outside and tells her to come in and help her make dinner. Saraya's brother tells his mother he would like to help with dinner, but she tells him he still has about 30 minutes to play and tells Saraya to come help her. What does this illustrate?
A. Gender-consistent behavior is socially regulated through negative reinforcement. B. Children feel good about themselves when they behave consistently with gender role norms. C. Girls tend to be more strongly gender socialized than boys. D. Parents tend to give girls more flexibility of choice in their activities.
Which principle is an ingredient of critical thinking?
A. being argumentative B. accepting assumptions C. seeking confirmatory examples of a claim D. exploring alternative explanations
Jimmy is taking his 7th grade exam in which he is asked to give one word for a set of given explanations. Though he knows the words for the answer and is confident about recollecting them, he is unable to recall them at that particular time. Which of the following terms refer to Jimmy's experience?
A. Decay theory B. Tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon C. Motivated forgetting D. Freudian slip