You read a list of terms including blind date. Later someone asks you which word on the list was the name of a fruit, and you fail to think of date. Why?
a. Representativeness heuristic
b. Law of effect
c. Proactive interference
d. Encoding specificity
d
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According to psychoanalytic theory, the role of the ego involves
a. counteracting the aggressive and sexual drives of the id. b. maximizing pleasure and reducing tension c. mediating conflict between the id and the superego. d. utilizing fantasy and primary process thinking.
Hallucinations and bizarre, unconvincing delusions are typical of
a. delusional disorders. b. schizophrenia. c. dissociative disorders. d. all types of psychosis.
When two autistic boys were ignored after instances of self-destructive behavior, their tendency to injure themselves disappeared. The operant principle employed was
a. negative reinforcement. b. stimulus control. c. nonreinforcement. d. reciprocal inhibition.
You are a colonel in the U.S. Army, responsible for running an Afghanistan prison that houses captured Taliban and al-Qaeda soldiers. A newly captured soldier is found to be in possession of documents that indicate an imminent operation targeting American soldiers. Traditional interrogation of the soldier has not yielded any results, and you are concerned that lives will be lost if the captive soldier cannot be made to reveal what he knows about the imminent attack. Believing that time is running out, you consider authorizing the use of brutality in order to hopefully extract the information before lives are lost. Your dilemma is known as:
A. the principle of double effect. B. the Dirty Harry problem. C. "just means." D. the Jack Bauer solution.