A young boy is attacked by a large dog. He is now terribly afraid of all large dogs. His phobia of dogs is BEST explained by __________ theory.

A. behavior
B. psychoanalytic
C. psychobiological
D. humanistic


Answer: A

Psychology

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c. Many people improve over years even without treatment. d. A treatment is not acceptable unless it works for all patients with a disorder.

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Sleep cycles repeat about every minutes, and the typical adult has cycles per night

a. 60; six to seven b. 60; three to four c. 90; four to five d. 120; two to three e. 90; two to three

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Measures of the components of attitude have focused more on ______.

a. cognition and behavior than emotion b. emotion than behavior than cognition c. cognition and emotion than behavior d. none of these

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The case of HM is a documented case of a patient whose speech skills and intelligence were unaffected by the removal of his hippocampus and parts of his temporal lobe but who could not form new long-term memories. Which memory disorder was MOST pronounced in HM?

A) transient amnesia B) retrograde amnesia C) prograde amnesia D) anterograde amnesia

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