Improvement in participant performance with repeated testing
What will be an ideal response?
practice effect
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d. They bind to specific receptors in the brain.
Ron's parents want him to either go to college or go to work in his father's business. Ron does not want to do either. He becomes so stressed by this conflict that he joins the army. Ron's joining the army is an example of
a. partial approach. b. ambivalence. c. freezing. d. leaving the field.
Renaldo is arrested for abducting and murdering a heterosexual male. He describes having felt "alive" and "turned on" when cutting off the victim's penis. Which of the following diagnoses may apply to this scenario?
A. sexual sadism B. frotteurism C. sexual masochism D. voyeurism
According to research on the use of sleeping pills to treat insomnia, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. Nonprescription sleeping pills have little sleep-inducing effects. b. Prescription sedatives increase Stage 4 sleep and REM sleep. c. The use of prescription sedatives can lead to drug-dependency insomnia. d. Newer drugs, such as Ambien and Lunesta, can induce sleep but can also cause amnesia, depression, and sleepwalking.