If a person tends to exaggerate the extent of a loss, which heightens his or her emotional reaction, this is called
a. catastrophizing. c. delusional thinking.
b. conflictualizing. d. none of these.
A
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Nala is worried about her three-year-old daughter Cindy's stubborn eating habits. Cindy refuses almost anything that Nala puts on her plate for breakfast or lunch. As Cindy's pediatrician, what do you tell Nala?
A. This may be a sign of gastrointestinal problems. B. Cindy is likely making up for the lost calories at dinner. C. Nala should offer any type of food, even sweets, to get Cindy to eat. D. Cindy is showing signs of failure to thrive.
Frederic Bartlett's research on memory demonstrated that people tend to remember:
A) what actually happened instead of what should have happened. B) what should have happened instead of what actually happened. C) nonsense syllables with more accuracy than meaningful words. D) meaningful words with more accuracy than nonsense syllables.
In the experiments on learning helplessness, animals that first learn to escape the shocks through mastery training
a. were more persistent later in trying to escape the shocks and were more resistant to learned helplessness. b. gave up more quickly when the shocks became inescapable, which resulted in their being less resistant to learned helplessness. c. became extremely aggressive and hostile when the shocks became inescapable. d. showed stereotyped responding to the shocks.
Why is gaze following important in infant development?
What will be an ideal response?