Distinguish between the primary and secondary gains experienced by those with conversion
disorder.
What will be an ideal response?
Primary gains refer to the alleviation of anxiety or avoidance of stressful situations that
result from the conversion symptoms. External "rewards" for the physical complaints
experienced are those external factors that maintain the behaviors, such as sympathy and
extra attention.
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Whom are college professors more likely to call on and assist?
A. men B. women C. older students D. first generation students
Jarrod's textbook has an interesting feature in it. It has pages of transparent pages, each of which has only a small picture on it. When he lays the pages down one after another, they give a diagram of the human brain, adding one structure at a time until the whole brain is represented. This is similar to the perceptual task of
A. monocular shadowing B. bottom-up processing C. binocular convergence D. top-down processing
Very often we do not realize or recognize the true causes of our symptoms. If you have been very stressed, and start putting on weight because of it, you may first instead blame a new diet. The underlying psychological process is known as:
a. confirmation bias c. misattribution b. the fundamental attribution error d. an acculturation error
The id operates according to the _____ principle, and the ego is regulated by the _____ principle.
A) hedonistic; moralistic B) pleasure; reality C) reality; pleasure D) moralistic; hedonistic