Leo has been depressed since he broke up with his girlfriend six months ago. His sleep and food habits have been erratic, and he refuses to socialize with his family or friends. He visits a psychologist who asks him to write about his recent traumatic emotional experience for about 15 minutes. In this scenario, Leo's psychologist is using the technique of ________.
A. emotional disclosure
B. reappraisal
C. sensory deprivation
D. empathetic listening
Answer: A
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a. These three phenomena all appear to come from the same core drive. b. The attachment drive and the sex drive appear to be somewhat separate drives, and love seems to be based on the former. c. The attachment drive and the sex drive appear to be somewhat separate drives, and love seems to be based on the latter. d. While the attachment drive is critically important during infancy and childhood, it is replaced in importance by the sex drive during puberty and adulthood; love may grow out of either drive.
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a. persons who are depressed tend to make. b. persons who are not depressed tend to make. c. attributes failure to bad luck or bad timing. d. is characteristic of the thinking of depressed boys, but not of depressed girls
Dr. Smith is developing a new drug to treat headaches. To test this drug, she develops a study in which one group gets the new drug, and the other gets a placebo, or a fake pill. Dr. Smith measures whether headaches improve by giving each participant a survey each day. The amount of improvement, as measured by the survey, is the ______ variable.
A. independent B. dependent C. non-response D. explanatory
If, every five years, I study the gender-role attitudes of the same group of individuals, this would be an example of what kind of research design?
a. cross-sectional b. sequential c. longitudinal d. correlational