Suppose you were a participant in David Rosenhan's research. What is the likely outcome when you went to a mental hospital and complained of hearing voices?
a) You would be sent home immediately.
b) You would be arrested for impersonating a patient.
c) You would be diagnosed as suicidal and admitted for treatment.
d) You would be diagnosed as suffering from schizophrenia and admitted.
D
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What can we conclude about the grades that males and females receive in mathematics courses?
a. Girls receive higher grades than boys up through sixth grade, but older boys receive higher grades than do older girls. b. No consistent gender differences have been reported in math grades. c. With some consistency, girls receive higher grades. d. With some consistency, boys receive higher grades.
In the late 1800s, the German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin made all of the following contributions to our knowledge of schizophrenia EXCEPT a. distinguished dementia praecox (schizophrenia) from manic-depressive illness
b. noted that hallucinations, delusions, and negativism were symptoms of dementia praecox (schizophrenia). c. combined several symptoms of insanity (catatonia, paranoia, hebephrenia) that had usually been viewed as reflecting separate and distinct disorders. d. conceptualized a treatment for patients with schizophrenia that is still being used today.
Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1. Most forgetting occurs soon after the occurrence of the event to be remembered 2. Proactive interference refers to situations in which earlier learning impairs memory for information acquired later 3. Taj recently changed the password to his e-mail account; now he cannot remember his old password, illustrating the effects of proactive interference 4. Absentmindedness is most often due to divided attention 5. Divided attention is associated with an increase in lower-left frontal lobe activity
Which of the following correlation coefficients shows the strongest relationship between the two variables entered into the correlation?
a. –.35 b. +.70 c. – 82 d. +.55