At one time, Abraham Lincoln, William James, news anchor Mike Wallace, and author J.K. Rowling each suffered from a mental disorder. Consequently, their examples contradict the myth that ____
a. mentally disordered people must have had bad parents
b. mental illness makes a person useless
c. mentally disturbed people must have inherited their disorders
d. mentally disordered people only need to exercise willpower to recover
B
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The proportion of test takers that get a "good" item correct increases as a function of the
a. item characteristic curve. b. total test score. c. validity of the test. d. item difficulty.
Earliest use of psilocybe mushrooms was by the:
a. Aztec and Mayan people b. ancient Chinese c. Spaniards d. New Guinea Papuans
Genetic factors for schizophrenia are supported by:
a. studies of twins with schizophrenia b. brain deficits among schizophrenics c. the dopamine theory of schizophrenia d. the diathesis stress theory of schizophrenia
Fred is afraid of spiders. He won't even watch a nature show on TV about them. When he sees a picture of a spider, he has a panic attack, but when he avoids looking at the image, his panic goes away. Fred's avoidance of spiders is being
a. extinguished, because he feels anxious after doing so. b. recovered spontaneously, because he will never get better. c. positively reinforced, because he is rewarded by his anxiety going down. d. negatively reinforced, because he is rewarded by his anxiety going down. e. positively reinforced, because he will lose his fear of spiders in the long run.