Jenny has schizophrenia. She speaks coherently, but very slowly and deliberately. Usually there
is little useful content in what she speaks, as her utterances tend to be vague and limited. Her
symptoms are best described as ______.
a. blocking c. perseveration
b. loose association d. poverty of speech
D
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Which of the following provides evidence that nature, as opposed to nurture, plays an important role in infant perceptual development?
a. Infants are born with a tendency to track moving objects and to scan the horizon. b. Failure to receive adequate sensory stimulation can result in sensory deficits. c. Infants who have one eye patched for an extensive period of time may develop impaired visual acuity. d. none of these
Emily is a psychologist who believes that many psychological difficulties are the result of a conflict between the id, ego, and superego. Emily most likely endorses which type of therapy?
a) cognitive-behavior b) cognitive c) psychoanalysis d) person-centered
A person with anomia would have the most difficulty with:
a. reaching out to touch objects. b. speaking rapidly and fluently. c. understanding written, as opposed to spoken, language. d. remembering the names of objects.
A computerized axial tomography (CT) scan uses _____.
a. radio waves within a magnetic field to produce cross-sectional images of the brain and its tissues b. a radioactive tracer and glucose to measure activity and metabolic changes in the brain c. multiple X-ray images to produce three-dimensional cross-section brain structure images d. electrodes attached to the scalp to record brain wave patterns