What is the difference between positive and negative schizophrenic symptoms?
A. Beneficial behaviors versus harmful behaviors
B. Behaviors that are present versus behaviors that are absent
C. Behaviors that are related to abnormal brain functioning versus those that are not
D. Behaviors shown by one personality versus behaviors shown by another
Answer: B
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A) feel alienated from what they were doing. B) have an external locus of control. C) appraise change as an interesting incentive to personal growth. D) be low in perceived control over their lives.
A neurologist and a neuropsychologist believe that a patient probably exhibits prosody. A series of brain scans is ordered. If the two specialists are correct in the diagnosis, they expect to find damage to which area of the brain?
a) cerebellum b) corpus callosum c) left hemisphere d) right hemisphere
Research has shown that very young infants possess general learning mechanisms that help them acquire knowledge. Two of these learning mechanisms are ___ and ___
a. imitation and statistical learning b. association and distance perception c. automatization and conceptual organization d. analogy and strategy construction
Which one of these is a type of stimulus that does not naturally elicit an unconditioned response in an organism?
A. Unconditioned stimulus B. Neutral stimulus C. Discriminative stimulus D. Unexpected stimulus