Define and give two examples of an obsession and a compulsion frequently found in children
What will be an ideal response?
• Obsession – persistent and intense intrusion of unwanted thoughts or images
• Compulsion – persistent and intense impulse to perform a specific behavior in order to control the obsessive thought
• Most common obsessions and compulsions – fear of contamination followed by repetitive hand-washing; other reasonable responses
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SIDS is almost unknown in cultures ______________
a. where babies sleep in cribs in a separate room from their parents b. where infants and children sleep on soft mattresses c. where cosleeping is the norm d. where most mothers do not breastfeed their babies
How effective is the use of stimulant medication in the treatment of ADHD?
What will be an ideal response?
According to the ________ heuristic, we assume that events we remember easily are likely to have occurred more frequently in the past-and are more likely to occur in the future-than events that are harder to remember.
A. frequency B. confirmation C. representativeness D. availability
Ethan is a gifted 14-year-old boy who has an excellent academic record. He has always scored higher than his classmates in Math and can do computations much faster than any of his classmates. Seeing his potential, his teachers encouraged him to compete in interstate Math tests. He has won several scholarships through these competitions. He recently took an IQ test and found that his score of 140 was much higher than the scores of his classmates. In the light of the findings from Lewis Terman's study of high IQ children, it is likely that Ethan is
A. socially awkward. B. maladjusted. C. emotionally insecure. D. more mature than others his own age.