Linda was suffering from an eye infection. Her doctor prescribed her eye drops that she had to use four times a day and advised her to apply warm compresses five times every day. The doctor also asked her to avoid using eye makeup. However, Linda used the solution only once a day and rarely applied warm compresses to her eye. She also continued to use eye makeup. Linda is practicing
A. creative nonadherence.
B. modified compliance.
C. hardiness.
D. reactance.
Answer: A
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a. focus on psychological comparisons, e.g., "Mary is less confident than Jane.". b. focus on behavioral comparisons, e.g., "Jason runs faster than Billy.". c. use mostly physical comparisons, e.g., "Adam has bluer eyes than Sara.". d. use the same concrete nonpsychological descriptors as they use to describe themselves.
Which of the following statements about multisystemic therapy aimed at preventing delinquency is true?
A) It works better with low-SES adolescents than high-SES adolescents. B) It leads to improvement in parent–adolescent relationships and school performance. C) It is exclusively a family-based intervention that focuses on parenting techniques. D) Research has concluded that it is not as effective as conventional services or individual therapy.
True or False: We can use a correlation coefficient to examine the causal relationship between two variables as long as the independent variable has been manipulated.
a. True b. False
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a. true b. false