Our sense of "the right time" to go to college, marry, have children, or retire is determined by our
A) biological clock.
B) intuition.
C) social clock.
D) cultural and cohort continuity.
C
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Which of the following is an example of the treatment technique for OCD called exposure and response prevention?
a. Carrie has an obsessive fear of contamination, which has led to compulsive hand-washing rituals. Her therapist is treating her by making her touch dirty laundry but not allowing her to wash for increasingly longer periods of time afterward. b. Kerry has an obsessive fear of contamination, which has led to compulsive hand-washing rituals. Her therapist is treating her by forcing her to wash her hands repeatedly, even when she doesn't feel anxious. c. Kelly has religious obsessions. She feels that if she doesn't read biblical passages every hour of the day, she will do something evil. Her therapist is treating her by having her attend religious services more frequently so that good thoughts will replace the bad ones. d. Callie has a hoarding compulsion. She becomes anxious whenever she has to throw something away; she even keeps stuff that she doesn't need and will never use. Her therapist has arranged for all Callie's junk to be removed and discarded when she is away from home.
Bobby suffered a stroke that damaged his brain, causing partial paralysis in his left arm. To increase the rate of neurogenesis in the damaged part of his brain and speed his recovery, Bobby's good right arm is immobilized, which forces his impaired left arm to become more active. This approach is known as
a. ablation. b. constraint-induced movement. c. localization of function. d. synaptic potential immobilization.
A child who has been playing outside in the dirt comes inside, refuses to wash his hands, and gets the refrigerator dirty. His parents force him to clean not only the refrigerator, but the kitchen floor and countertops as well. Behavioral therapists would label this technique as
a. overcorrection. b. "Grandma's rule.". c. response cost. d. negative reinforcement.
According to work by Charles Osgood and his colleagues, when the average person says that fact G is "extremely interesting," this is likely to mean that fact G is subjectively about ____ times as interesting as something that is merely "interesting."
A) 1.55 B) two C) three D) four