John just began therapy sessions to deal with a variety of problems that have caused him problems for some time. His therapist uses a lot of cognitive therapy approaches
Which of the following would this therapist likely do during a typical therapy session?
a) The therapist will role play the consequences of some of John's
faulty and irrational beliefs.
b) Tell John that he needs to "get real" and "grow up" before he can
expect any change in his life.
c) Ask John to share his earliest memories of his interactions with his
parents and his siblings in order to track down the roots of his current
difficulties.
d) The therapist will encourage John to spend more time each day
engaged in a series of relaxation exercises that will help him to
develop some of the social skills he is lacking.
a
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Elsie is loving and works very hard to get along with others. On which personality trait is she likely to measure very high?
a. Agreeableness b. Extraversion c. Openness to experience d. Neuroticism
Problems in the ability to use short-term memory effectively have been found to be associated with clinical conditions such as:
a. cyclothymia b. anxiety c. schizophrenia d. depression
Dr. Whorf believes that language structures the way we perceive the world. Therefore, people who speak various languages conceptualize the world in different ways. What is this called?
a. infinite creativity in language c. variations in rules of grammar b. the linguistic relativity hypothesis d. the displacement hypothesis
Linguist Noam Chomsky reasoned that
A) children are born with a series of inborn modules that are specialized for different aspects of language acquisition. B) reinforcement and imitation fully explain language development in toddlers and preschool-age children. C) the rules of sentence organization are too complex to be directly taught to even a cognitively sophisticated young child. D) children's innate desire to verbally interact with others promotes language development in all cultures.