Three months ago, Paulette was raped in an underground parking lot of the office complex where she works. Since that time, she has had insomnia. When she is able to sleep, she has nightmares and wakes up screaming, in a high state of arousal. She is no longer able to park in any underground parking garages, and she has quit her job. In this case, it is quite likely that Paulette is experiencing:
a. burnout
b. general adaptation syndrome
c. posttraumatic stress disorder
d. retrograde amnesia
C
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The Public Hospital in Williamsburg, Virginia, was the first hospital in the United States devoted exclusively to the mentally ill, and held to a treatment philosophy that __________.
A. patients needed to choose rationality over insanity, with aggressive treatment techniques designed to intimidate patients B. patients were demonically possessed and needed to be made uncomfortable in order to force the demons to leave C. patients were medically ill and needed physiological treatments D. patients were basically animals and should be treated as such
The term cognition refers to:
a. committing newly encountered facts to memory b. the activities that underlie all forms of thought c. developing new patterns of problem solving through maturation d. the development of new behaviors through reinforcement
Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1. The heritability of intelligence generally increases with the age of the sample measured. 2. As the number and variety of nonshared experiences in a population increase, the heritability coefficient of intelligence will decrease. 3. The IQ correlation between siblings decreases as the age difference between them increases. 4. First-born children tend to have higher IQs than do their later-born siblings. 5. Absolute intelligence tends to increase over the course of an individual's lifetime.
When old information keeps you from learning new information, which of the following is occurring?
a. selective attention b. proactive interference c. repression d. retroactive interference