What do alpha brain waves indicate?
A. A state of drowsiness and relaxation
B. Dreaming
C. Very deep sleep
D. A state of active wakefulness
A. A state of drowsiness and relaxation
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A law student preparing for the state bar exam underwent a battery of tests for partial paralysis in his dominant hand. Although doctors could find no physical cause for this paralysis, the student was able to postpone the exam. Then, strangely enough, the paralysis subsided. A possible diagnosis could be ____ disorder
a. ?pain b. ?dissociative c. ?conversion d. ?illness anxiety
Clinical psychologists conducting assessments in forensic settings
A. should build rapport by assuring the person being assessed that no information collected during the assessment can be used against him. B. are rarely asked to determine the mental status of a defendant pleading not guilty by reason of insanity. C. may be asked to assess for child custody, personal injury lawsuits, and workers’ compensation hearings. D. must provide copies of the assessment report to the person being assessed, as well as any agency paying for the evaluation.
Regarding the forgetting of information, which of the following statements is TRUE?
a. The forgetting of nonsense syllables during testing shows a slow decline at first which becomes more rapid as time progresses. b. The curve of forgetting for nonsense syllables will stretch over a longer period of time than a curve of forgetting for meaningful information. c. Recent events are recalled more accurately than those from the remote past. d. Cramming for a test is an efficient method for studying because you do not have to remember the information for very long.
McMillan and colleagues (2009 ) studied cortisol responses to standard psychological stressor in a group of female youths exposed to childhood maltreatment, relative to a control group
The attenuated response from maltreated youth, as compared to a typical increase of cortisol in the control group, was interpreted as: a) A symptom of dysregulation that may play a role in their vulnerability b) A symptom of adaptation that may play a role in their vulnerability c) A misunderstanding of the direction of the correlation between the variables d) None of the above