John has been saying he wishes he could just die, saying things like, "It doesn't matter if I pay my bill," and he just gave away his favorite CD collection saying he wouldn't need it anymore. These behaviors should be considered
a. methods of getting attention.
b. signs of a break with reality.
c. warning signs of a potential suicide attempt.
d. symptoms of cyclothymic disorder.
C
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A. There is a greater prevalence for African Americans to live in single generation homes. B. African American households are more likely to be headed by single parents. C. African Americans have a more collectivist view of caregiving. D. Single-parent African American households depend less upon the grandparents to provide child care during the day.
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What will be an ideal response?
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The plan specifies rewards for reaching weekly goals and penalties for not achieving them. Eileen's therapist is using which of the following methods? a. classical conditioning b. desensitization c. contingency management d. a token economy e. self-help therapy
When Wilder Penfield pioneered a technique of directly stimulating areas of the brain with an electrical probe and observing the behavior of the patient, he found that ______.
A. the brain itself contains a large number of nociceptors which override signals coming from within the skin B. when he stimulated regions of somatosensory cortex, the patients had tingling experiences in specific areas along the skin C. when he stimulated regions of posterior parietal cortex, the patients experienced pain, usually centered internally D. patient discomfort reached such high levels that he abandoned using this technique