Describe the four essential components of a regulatory system
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The system variable is the characteristic to be regulated; the set point is the optimal value of the system variable; a detector monitors the system value; and a correctional mechanism
restores the system variable to the set-point value.
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The aim of is to re-integrate a person with a psychotic disorder into a productive occupational environment
a. vocational rehabilitation b. cognitive therapy c. family therapy d. social skills training
What can we conclude about the use of imagery to improve memory?
a. Imagery seems to be involved only in retrieval, rather than in encoding. b. In general, people recall only 10% more if the instructions emphasize imagery, instead of simple repetition. c. Compared to repetition instructions, imagery instructions produce much better recall. d. Imagery is helpful on recognition tasks, but not on recall tasks.
After the mid 1800s, moral therapy declined as a treatment for the mentally ill in the United States because a. the number of patients in mental institutions also declined
b. immigrants caused an increase in the mental hospital population. c. the number of people available to staff mental hospitals increased. d. new biologically based treatments became available.
View a violent cartoon and then answer these questions: (a) What potential effects would such cartoons have on children's aggression and tolerance for violence? (b) What potential effects would such cartoons have on children's acquisition of prosocial behavior?
What will be an ideal response?