A newly admitted patient believes he can "leap tall buildings in a single bound" and "stop a speeding bullet" with the force of his mind. When the patient was discussed at a case conference, the psychologist responsible for his treatment
noted that the major symptom was a
a) delusion of grandeur.
b) delusion of reference.
c) persecutory delusion.
d) delusion of obsession.
A
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At around what age do boys begin to outperform girls in visuospatial tasks?
A. 8 B. 10 C. 12 D. 14
You ask your 89-year-old great grandmother how she has changed over the years
If your great grandmother is like most elderly persons, she will a. provide a very inaccurate description of herself due to a lack of memory regarding her younger years. b. provide a very accurate description of the major changes in her life over the years. c. tend to overestimate the amount of change that has occurred in her life over the years. d. say that she is essentially the same person that she was when she was young.
While his exhausted mother was taking a nap, four-year-old Dennis decided to help her out by doing the laundry. He dragged a stool over to the washing machine, stuffed clothes into it, turned it on, and dumped a box of detergent on top of the clothes. Which psychologist and which learning theory could best explain Dennis's behavior?
a. Ivan Pavlov; classical conditioning b. Edward Thorndike; the law of effect c. Albert Bandura; observational learning d. John Garcia; biological preparedness
According to Pollack, what is the result of the traditional ways of raising boys?
a) A "chauvinistic determinism" b) A "gender-disparate society" c) A "national crisis of boyhood" d) A "gender-based cultural nationalism"