Mike is a terminally ill patient who stays at home rather than in a hospital. His treatment focuses on the reduction of pain and suffering since any medical treatment would be of little help. This scenario demonstrates:
A) terminal sedation.
B) physician-assisted suicide.
C) palliative care.
D) active euthanasia.
C
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The learning process studied in the Skinner box is known as __________.
A. social learning B. higher-order conditioning C. cognitive learning D. operant conditioning
Nonverbal learning disabilities are characteristic of children who perform worse at ____ than reading
a. sports b. singing c. math d. spelling
A psychologist is interviewing a refugee to this country who is unfamiliar with the majority culture here. In his former country, this person was spied on by the government and was the victim of robberies and assaults. He is suspicious of most people in authority and does not trust their motives Which personality disorder might a psychologist suspect of this refugee, given that he did not know
the history? a. borderline b. obsessive-compulsive c. paranoid d. schizotypal
The procedure which pairs a relaxation response with stimuli that elicit unpleasant feelings is called:
a. spontaneous recovery c. operant conditioning b. systematic desensitization d. stimulus discrimination