People with dementia often show difficulty with abstract thinking. Which of the following questions to a person with dementia would help to demonstrate this difficulty?
a. "What time is it?"
b. "What was the name of your first grade teacher?"
c. "Why are a baseball bat and a hockey stick alike?"
d. "What would you like to have for supper tonight?"
Answer: c.
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Dr. Rogers meets one of his students at a local shopping mall and he cannot recall her name. However, when he sees her in class the next Monday morning, he immediately recalls that her name is Juanita. Which theory of forgetting best explains Dr. Roger’s memory lapse?
a. ?interference theory b. ?decay theory c. ?cue-dependent forgetting d. ?repression
To obtain objective information, researchers sometimes must deceive their subjects. Ethically, research involving deception must always _________
a. pay participants b. maintain subject anonymity c. use double-blind control d. explain the deception to the subjects after the data are collected and obtain their informed consent to use the information obtained
The NEO Personality Inventory includes all of the following EXCEPT
a. a content scale for bizarre mentation. b. a neuroticism dimension that is broken down into six scales. c. five major dimensions. d. the potential to be used to study personality stability and change across the life span.
________ is the major proponent of the humanistic approach to personality.
A. Raymond Cattell B. B. F. Skinner C. Albert Bandura D. Carl Rogers