Discuss the role of media in helping
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: Several studies have shown that playing prosocial video games and listening to music with prosocial lyrics increases actual helping after the experimental session was over. It's likely that the media increased individuals' empathy toward those in need and increased the accessibility of thoughts about helping others.
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What does contingency management emphasize in the treatment of an addiction?
a. Rewards for abstaining from a substance b. Understanding the unconscious motives behind substance abuse c. Replacing a harmful substance with a less harmful one d. Unconditional positive regard
Culture and ethnicity present challenges for diagnosing personality disorders because ____
a. in their effort to avoid being culturally biased, therapists could miss certain symptoms
b. expressions of personality in one culture may differ from those in another culture
c. norms overlap in most cultures, and ethnicity is difficult to determine
d. diagnostic differences are rarely due to actual cultural differences
After a long period of abstinence, exposure to cues associated with the substance are very unlikely to trigger a renewed craving.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Correlational designs:
a. may allow one to infer causal relations between variables. b. do not allow one to confirm predictions about relations between variables. c. may allow one to disconfirm potential causal relations between variables. d. may allow neither confirmation nor disconfirmation of causal relations between variables.