Sawyer tends to "choke up" when it comes to talking with girls. He gets embarrassed and escapes the situation. When this happens, he gets really mad at himself and calls himself an idiot. Then a friend teaches him that instead, he should think about himself in the situation in third-person, so that he can control his emotions and find solutions. So he thinks, "What is it that gets Sawyer so
flustered around girls? What could he do to keep from choking?" This is an example of:
a. distraction
b. shaping
c. distancing
d. All of the above.
C.
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As an evolutionary theorist, Dr. Zorba is most likely to believe that
a. adaptive behaviors have a hereditary basis b. cognitive issues are more important than social issues. c. an infant can only attach to its biological mother. d. trust underlies almost all human emotions.
When young Mathias's mother says, ''Good morning honey, how did you sleep?'', he responds by simply repeating what she said instead of answering her question. This is a form of language disturbance called
A. pronoun reversal. B. echolalia. C. mutism. D. deferred mirroring.
Regarding the exceptional memory of Steve described in the textbook, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. Steve's exceptional memory seemed to be based on highly practiced strategies of organizing digits into meaningful groups containing three or four digits each. b. After 20 months of practice, Steve was able to memorize approximately 80 digits. c. Steve's short-term memory improved through this intensive practice. d. Before he began practicing long lists of digits, Steve had an average digit span memory.
Cancer patients experiencing nausea from chemotherapy often develop taste aversions to the foods they had eaten before a given treatment session. Based on the research of Garcia and colleagues, researchers developed a technique for minimizing this negative effect; it involved:
A) flashing different pictures of a patient's favourite food on an overhead monitor while the patient underwent treatment. B) giving a patient unusual foods, such as coconut or root-beer-flavoured candy, at the end of their last meal before undergoing treatment. C) administering food to a patient in the middle of the treatment cycle. D) telling a patient to eat samples of favourite foods before entering therapy, thereby ensuring that the patient remembered what the favourite foods were, even after treatment.