The widely varying rates of dissociative disorders found throughout the world may point to their being a __________
A) culture-free syndrome
B) culture-bound syndrome
C) prevalent disorder independent of culture
D) universal psychological phenomenon
Answer: B
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a. Insensitivity to pain b. Loss of facial expressions of emotion c. Obsessions and compulsions d. Hallucinations and delusions
Research on a home-based program designed to prevent teen dating abuse found that the program was successful in ____. a. reducing risk among teens at very high risk of perpetrating violence
b. changing teen behavior even several years after the program c. increasing understanding of the negative consequences of dating violence d. decreasing acceptance of dating violence
In Chapter 5 of your textbook, the discussion of encoding specificity and level of processing emphasized that
a. both encoding specificity and level of processing activate the visual cortex during processing, and this activation directly improves recall. b. recall is more accurate if the instructions during encoding match the instructions during remembering; this match may actually be more important than deep processing. c. the most important factor in determining recall is whether people processed the material using deep processing or shallow processing. d. encoding specificity is the most important factor in laboratory research on memory, whereas level of processing is the most important factor for everyday memory tasks.
Faculty in the psychology department at State University consume an average of 5 cups of coffee per day with a standard deviation of 1.5 . The distribution is normal. What is the percentile rank for an individual who consumed 8 cups of coffee per day?
a. 97.72 b. 2.28 c. 47.72 d. none of the options is correct