The Tarasoff ruling places the therapist's duty to warn in direct conflict with __________.
A. the duty to heal
B. principles of confidentiality
C. principles of competency to stand trial
D. judgments of legal sanity or insanity
Answer: B
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According to your textbook's criticism of the evolutionary-psychology approach to love relationships,
a. women actually give negative evaluations of reliable men who are "nice guys.". b. most men and women actually say that they plan to have just one sexual partner once they settle down. c. the evolutionary approach can explain same-gender preferences, but not heterosexual preferences. d. the evolutionary approach does not explain all the data, but it is more accurate than the social-roles explanation.
What theory states that dissociative identity disorder is a response to early childhood traumatization and reflects a coping mechanism against powerlessness and hopelessness?
A. Compartmentalization theory B. Trauma theory C. Protectionist theory D. Abuse-reaction theory
Regarding chimpanzees' communication abilities, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. The ability of chimpanzees in the language experiments to invent a simple grammar may help us better understand the roots of human language. b. The pygmy chimpanzee named Kanzi has the vocabulary and the ability to invent a simple grammar that are equal to those abilities shown by five-year old humans. c. Noam Chomsky insists that if chimps were biologically capable of language they would use it on their own. d. For the most part, natural animal communication is quite limited.
The results of the line bisection task indicate
a. a right-hemisphere bias in orienting attention. b. a left-hemisphere bias in orienting attention. c. an attentional bias toward the right visual field. d. a top-down bias in attentional processing.