What are the criteria for diagnosing pedophilia?
What will be an ideal response?
The individual has recurrent intense sexual urges and sexually arousing fantasies involving sexual activity with a prepubescent child or children. According to the American Psychiatric Association, the children are aged 13 or younger and a person with pedophilic disorder must be at least 16 and at least 5 years older than the child. A late adolescent is not considered to have pedophilic disorder if he or she is involved in an ongoing sexual relationship with a 12-year-old or older child.
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Failure to detect changes in part of a scene is known as change ________
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
Which of the following is NOT a major characteristic of successful persuasive communications that involve fear appeals? The negative consequences described
a. are very unpleasant. b. are associated with one's physical health. c. are likely to occur if one does not follow the advice. d. are avoidable if one follows the advice.
Which of the following is not one of the control systems that Bandura noted?
a. stimulus control b. response control c. outcome control d. symbolic control
To understand an individual's intelligence, we must include questions and tasks that are responsive to ______ differences.
A. inherited B. contextual C. mental age D. language