Briefly summarize the facts of the Tarasoff case and its primary implication for clinical psychologists.
What will be an ideal response?
A client at a university counseling center told his therapist of his intention to kill his girlfriend (Tatiana Tarasoff). The therapist informed campus police, but not the potential victim. Later, the client killed the girlfriend, and her family sued. The result of the lawsuit was that the therapist was found liable for failure to warn the victim of the danger. The primary implication is that therapists now have a “duty to warn” potential victims when they are credibly informed by clients of an intent to harm.
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Kisilevksy et al. (2003) showed that fetuses one to two weeks before birth recognized their mother’s voice. This was accomplished by:
a. measuring differences in the infant’s heart rate. b. observing differences in motor behavior when the infant is in the presence of his or her mother or when the infant is in the presence of another woman. c. training the infant in a conjugate reinforcement task. d. retrospectively asking children about such experiences when they are much older.
What therapeutic techniques would a Freudian therapist, like the one in the case study, likely use? What state of consciousness would be the focus of therapy? How does healing/improvement occur during Freudian therapy?
What will be an ideal response?
Organizational culture is defined as the combined beliefs, values, ethics, procedures, and atmosphere of an organization.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
When attributes vary on a continuous scale such that they can be measured in terms of amount or degree, resemblances are estimated from a
a. factor analysis. c. concordance rate. b. correlation coefficient. d. sibling analysis.