Ginny finds out that her husband is having an affair. She becomes very depressed and tells her best friend, "I couldn't survive if he left me.". According to REBT, Ginny's depression is the result of
a. having lost meaningfulness in her life, and her need to make the courageous choice to finally divorce her husband.
b. having developed learned helplessness through avoidance conditioning.
c. her use of the defense mechanism of regression as a coping mechanism.
d. her irrational belief that she should depend on others who are stronger than herself.
D
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a. melatonin consistently reduces the effects of jet lag. b. melatonin consistently enhances the effects of jet lag by resynchronizing the biological clock in the wrong direction. c. melatonin can be used to reduce jet lag if the dose is given at the right time. d. melatonin can be used to reduce jet lag if the right dose is taken.
Ms. Brown has all of her awards and certificate she has earned on her wall. She is using _____ to communicate her personality
a. paralanguage b. artifacts c. body language d. space
A test maker conducts the appropriate statistical tests to make sure that all the items on his new personality test are measuring the same basic concept. He wants to demonstrate that the test has good
A. discriminant validity. B. congruent validity. C. test-retest reliability. D. internal consistency.
Regarding the approach-avoidance conflict, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. The approach-avoidance conflict involves a person being simultaneously attracted to and repelled by the same situation or goal. b. The approach-avoidance conflict often creates ambivalent feelings in a person. c. A person seldom escapes from an approach-avoidance conflict and often resorts to partial approach solutions. d. The approach-avoidance conflict often results in the person freezing and then using displacement to deal with this difficult situation.