Ted is 17-years-old and has been drinking and driving. He does not believe anything can happen to him. This is an example of which of the following?
A. storm and stress
B. symbolic interaction
C. imaginary audience
D. personal fable
Answer: D
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Suppose you were the director of a rape crisis center. What could you expect in terms of the frequency of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among the clients who come to your center immediately and at three months after a traumatic experience?
a. Because PTSD is delayed, no one would meet the criteria for PTSD at this time b. About 10 percent would meet the criteria for PTSD immediately; about 50 percent would suffer from PTSD at three months. c. PTSD symptoms could be present immediately, but symptoms could go away for periods of time. d. Because rape is quite common, there will be almost no cases of PTSD either immediately or three months after the assault.
Which of the following criteria helps to increase the effectiveness of punishment?
a. when it is swift b. when it is inconsistent c. when it is given with classical conditioning d. when it is vicarious e. when it uses physical discipline
Tyrone is a college student who's trying to decide what he wants to do with his life. He was interested in history, so he majored in history for his freshman year. As a sophomore, he was more interested in economics and changed his major. After he saw Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, he got a summer job working on an archaeological project, and now he is thinking of changing
his major again and becoming an archaeologist. Tyrone appears to be __________ in the degree to which he's committed to his new identity and __________ in the degree to which he's spent time and effort examining his options. A) high; high B) high; low C) low; high D) low; low
Your worries? They're only thoughts. Don't try to stop them, but recognize that they're thoughts, and don't let them upset you so much." This statement MOST likely would come from someone using which form of therapy for generalized anxiety disorder?
A) rational-emotive therapy B) mindfulness-based cognitive therapy C) intolerance of uncertainty therapy D) biofeedback