Tinesha comes into her Introduction to Psychology class on the first day of the semester and sees a man wearing blue jeans and a T-shirt sitting at the front of class. She does not say anything to him, and assumes that he is just someone sitting in the room. When more students show up and the man doesn’t leave, Tinesha starts to wonder if he is going to cause a problem. When he stands up and says, “Hello everyone, I’m Dr. Lawrence and I will be teaching your psychology class this semester,” Tinesha starts to wonder if this will be a good class. Tinesha’s perception of Dr. Lawrence is probably affected by the fact that he does not represent a common _______, or average “image,” of a college professor.
a. ?exemplar
b. ?schema
c. ?prototype
d. ?concept
ANSWER: c. ?prototype
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a. community prevention programs b. suicide prevention programs c. crisis intervention programs d. policies that expel suicidal students
Dr. Lawrence believes that mental illness has an emotional basis. We can therefore conclude that Dr. Lawrence holds a(n) ____ view of mental illness
a. organic b. biological c. psychological d. emotional
An important point from the authors' discussion on why people need to care about the dangers of pseudoscience is that
A) harm rarely results from pseudoscientific beliefs or treatments. B) a lack of critical thinking may lead to a variety of negative outcomes on many different levels of society. C) people are often quite accurate and unbiased in their day-to-day decision making. D) quackery and pseudoscience are especially easy to detect without exposure to critical thinking or skepticism.
Men who drink five or more drinks in a row and women who drink four or more drinks in a row are engaging in ____
binge drinking || alcoholism || social drinking || risk-taking drinking || || ||