A person who wanders awayfrom home, blocks out her identity, and establishes a new
personality in a new location is diagnosed with
A) paraphilia
B) fugue
C) depersonalization
D) conversion
B
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Your teacher organizes a debate on Freudian theory. You are assigned to be on the anti-Freud side, and therefore must point out problems in the theory. Which of the following will be at the top of your list?
A. Children do not have sexual motives. B. Several of his concepts have no supporting scientific data. C. Defense mechanisms actually increase anxiety. D. Psychoanalytic therapy is effective for treating psychotics only.
Why is construct validity an important consideration in selecting an assessment measure?
a) To ensure that the measure assesses what it purports to assess b) To ensure that the investigator assesses the appropriateness of the construct they wish to measure c) To ensure that the content of the items reflects the construct of interest d) To ensure that scores on the measures are consistent across time
Sarah is a psychologist. She focuses on teenagers in her latest study. The aim of her study is to understand what differentiates one teenager from another and leads him or her to act consistently in different situations and over extended periods of time. Sarah is most likely studying
A. insight. B. intelligence. C. personality. D. creativity.
Contemporary research on biofeedback as a treatment for essential hypertension by Greenhalgh et al. (2009 ) indicates that:
a) Biofeedback is ineffective when compared to placebos b) Biofeedback is ineffective when compared with no treatment c) Biofeedback is ineffective when compared with pharmacotherapy d) All of the above