The destructive beliefs and attitudes held by a society that are ascribed to groups considered different in some manner, such as people with mental illness are called

a) disorders
b) stigmas.
c) preconceived notions.
d) discriminative categories.


b

Psychology

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Horney's compliant personality is similar to Adler's:

a. avoiding type. c. getting type. b. defying type. d. ruling type.

Psychology

The clinical psychologist's aim in applying prediction and control goals to a client's behavior is to

a. decide the treatment. b. help the client meet his or her treatment objectives. c. allow the client a narrow range of options for his or her behavior. d. use a database to formulate a treatment for the client.

Psychology

_____ is the extent to which an assessment technique correlates with other techniques that measure the same thing.

A. Reliability B. Clinical utility C. Convergent validity D. Discriminant validity

Psychology

A woman feels that the reason the pie she was making burned is because everything she does is wrong and that she will never succeed at any task she attempts. The woman is expressing a(n) ________ attribution

a. global b. specific c. unstable d. well-defined

Psychology