Coping desensitization employs bodily sensations to
a. suppress avoidance.
b. prompt emotional-regulation.
c. reinforce persistence.
d. punish fearful rumination.
b
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What is the primary difficulty with applying the criterion of "social nonconformity" to define abnormal behavior?
A. Norms are entirely subjective from person to person. B. Societies generally accept and view all behaviors as normal. C. The acceptability of a behavior might be different from one setting to another. D. Norms do not guide behavior except in rare instances.
Critics of behaviorism have raised each of the following points except one. Which one?
A. Studies with laboratory animals have limited use when explaining human behavior. B. Heredity plays a larger role in personality than behaviorists acknowledge. C. The therapeutic procedures derived from conditioning principles appear to be ineffective. D. Cognition plays a larger role in behavior than strict behaviorists acknowledge.
Robinson was always well fed. At age three, he and his family were shipwrecked, and for weeks, he suffered malnutrition. After being rescued, Robinson probably
a. failed to recover and soon died. b. developed symptoms of kwashiorkor. c. had catch-up growth and then developed normally. d. continued for life to suffer symptoms of malnutrition.
A threat to internal validity in which extreme scores, upon retesting, tend to be less extreme is called:
a. a time-series confound. b. a single-group effect. c. regression to the mean. d. none of the alternatives is correct.