Which of the following is an example of a safety behavior?

a) seeking treatment.
b) avoiding snakes.
c) exposing oneself to a feared stimulus in a controlled environment.
d) avoiding eye contact.


d

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John Bowlby viewed infant behaviors such as crying, smiling, and clinging as

a. reflexes and non-meaningful. b. essential to the infant's survival. c. indicators of separation anxiety. d. having different meanings depending upon whether the infant was a girl or boy.

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Suppose that you are looking for a dark-colored car in a row of parked cars. Eleven of them are light colored, and one is dark colored. The dark-colored car seems to pop out. In this example,

a. you are using focused attention. b. you are using bottom-up processing. c. you are demonstrating the feature-present/feature-absent effect. d. a dark-colored object is more likely to stimulate the movement-detection cells in the retina.

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Describe how cognitive–behavioral therapy might be used to treat an individual with an eating disorder

What will be an ideal response?

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Kim Peek, who died in 2009, was the model for Dustin Hoffman's character in the movie Rain Man. Although Kim had difficulty with abstract thinking and tests of general intelligence, he exhibited exceptional mental ability in memorizing books, zip codes, and classical music. Kim Peek had what is known as

a. gifted autism. b. savant syndrome. c. Turner's syndrome. d. a schizotypal personality.

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