Jansen is an artist who dresses in an offbeat manner, drives a multi-colored VW van, and generally is known as a charming eccentric. Jansen is happy, creative, and generally well adjusted. It is critical to distinguish this type of non-traditional person from others who have not adopted the usual minimum rules for behavior, which is destructive. This example illustrates one of the problems with what definition of abnormality?

a. social nonconformity
b. statistical
c. cultural
d. subjective discomfort


a. social nonconformity

Psychology

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a. repetitive behavior. b. bizarre behavior patterns. c. abnormal behavior. d. autistic behavioral pattern.

Psychology

Maggie was raised in an Irish-Catholic home; she is very proud of her heritage and pleased when she hears that other Irish-Catholics are successful. Being Irish-Catholic is part of Maggie's ____ identity

a. ?group b. ?personal c. ?schematic d. ?unified

Psychology

__________ is the process by which neurotransmitters are reclaimed by the axon terminal intact, and then are repackaged for immediate use

a) Reception b) Synaptic transmission c) Reuptake d) Reversal

Psychology

When your doctor taps you just below the knee, he or she is checking a reflex that is triggered by which kind of receptor?

a. a Golgi tendon organ b. a central pattern generator c. a muscle spindle d. a vestibular organ

Psychology