Luke reviews his annual performance evaluation from his boss. Although there is only one
negative comment on the entire evaluation, Luke ignores the positive comments and focuses
only on the negative comment. His cognitive error is ______.
a. overgeneralization c. disqualifying the positive
b. labeling and mislabeling d. mental filter
D
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When a psychologist draws and utilizes aspects from many different psychological theories and approaches, we say that the psychologist is
a. psychoanalytic-behavioral. b. a functionalist. c. a structuralist. d. eclectic.
What did Sigmund Freud consider as the key to understanding the psychological problems he observed in his patients?
a) free will b) brain physiology c) the unconscious mind d) external consequences
When you are studying for an exam, you will have a better chance of understanding, encoding, and later retrieving a concept if you use __________
a. verbal cognition b. visual and verbal cognition c. visual cognition d. vestibular cognition
It is difficult to make a clear link between viewing violent television and aggressive behavior in adolescents because most of the research is
a. outdated. b. correlational. c. Canadian. d. experimental.