Over the last week, Carmen has had several frightening episodes in which she feels that she is outside her body, sort of lost in a dream world, and behaving like a robot. Carmen is experiencing a dissociative condition known as
a. hysteria.
b. dysthymic disorder.
c. a conversion disorder.
d. depersonalization.
D
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The Gestalt psychologists believed that breaking a “whole” perception into its building blocks, as advocated by the structuralists, would result in the loss of ____
a. important psychological information b. fundamental intellect c. learned consciousness d. irrational behaviors
What evidence did Money and Ehrhardt use as the basis for concluding that there is a critical period for the establishment of gender identity?
a. Hormones must be released prenatally to have any impact on behavior. b. Sex reassignment can be successfully done when a child has achieved gender identity, but not once a child has achieved gender stability. c. Sex reassignment before 18 months of age causes few adjustment problems, while reassignment after 3 years of age is very difficult. d. Sex reassignment while still in the preoperational stage of development causes few adjustment problems, while reassignment once concrete operational thought has begun is very difficult.
Conforming to socially approved emotional display rules is
a. equally important in both individualistic and communal cultures. b. more important in collectivistic than in individualistic cultures. c. more important in individualistic than in communal cultures. d. unimportant in both collectivistic nor individualistic cultures.
Avoiding restriction of range and using within-subjects designs are two good ways to avoid making:
A) a Type I error B) a Type II error C) a Type III error D) a Type IV error