Which of the following is the most commonly agreed-upon definition of behavior therapy?
a. The therapeutic application of the laws of learning
b. Any empirically-validated psychotherapy procedure
c. The treatment of behavior-maintaining cognitions
d. No single definition exists
d
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Which of the following best describes how contemporary psychology views the mind?
a. Sam was just born smart, though no one else in his family seems to share his intelligence. b. Sam must have gotten the “smart gene” from his mother: He never studies but gets good grades. c. Sam was sent to the best schools and thus became a highly intelligent individual. d. Sam was alert and responsive as a baby, studied diligently in school, and was admitted to a top-ranked college.
Endocrine glands secrete __________ that regulate various bodily functions
a. hormones c. neurotransmitters b. endorphins d. saliva
As argued by Sternberg and Gardner, what is a drawback of Wechsler and Stanford-Binet tests?
A. They do not measure verbal, spatial, and mathematical forms of intelligence. B. They lay emphasis on quantitative reasoning and visual-spatial processing. C. They do not measure social, musical, and naturalistic forms of intelligence. D. They had incorporated developments in neurosciences in their studies.
If an individual has a recessive phenotype for a particular trait, it can be concluded that
A) both parents also had a recessive phenotype for that trait. B) only one parent had a recessive phenotype for that trait. C) both parents were homozygous for the dominant gene for that trait. D) each parent had at least one recessive gene for that trait. E) both A and C