As you and your friends returned and met up for the first time since high school, you find that you've all taken different paths in life
Based on cognitive dissonance and the principle of justification of effort, who would be the LEAST satisfied with what he or she is currently doing?
a. Jill, who just finished a grueling four-month training period with the Marines
b. Matt, who is in the Peace Corps, living in third-world countries with no modern conveniences
c. Fiona, who is going to a local college with a loose admissions policy, and whose parents are paying her way
d. Ann, who went through a five-step process to be accepted at her college and now is taking rigorous courses
Answer: C
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a. all other DSM disorders. b. anxiety, mood, and schizophrenia. c. mood, anxiety, and somatoform disorders. d. a host of physical anomalies.
A cognitive therapist would try to reduce a client's compulsive hand-washing by
a. prescribing anti-depressant medications. b. changing the client's thoughts and beliefs about dirt and contamination. c. using systematic desensitization to directly change the client's behavior. d. helping the client to gain insight into the reasons why he or she uses compulsive hand-washing to control anxiety.
Which astronomer refused to work on the calendar problem because he believed that better knowledge of the movements of the heavenly bodies was needed first?
a. Copernicus c. Kepler b. Brahe d. Galileo
Regardless of a the methods used to train clinical psychologists to be culturally competent, an essential ingredient is that the trainee
A. reaches a deeper appreciation of his or her own cultural identity. B. reads detailed descriptions of a variety of cultural groups in the form of professional books or peer-reviewed articles. C. enrolls in courses taught by faculty members whose cultural background is different from that of the trainee. D. conducts research with participants from culturally diverse backgrounds.