What is the first step in treating phobias and anxiety disorders?
a. getting the client to relax
b. teaching the client some simple cognitive strategies
c. ruling out possible medical or physical causes
d. explaining various perspectives about the disorders to the client
c
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What methods were used by Bouchard and Lykken to study the impact of genes and environment on psychological characteristics?
A. They studied siblings raised in the same home and looked for common characteristics. B. They studied adopted children raised in the same home and looked for common characteristics. C. They studied identical twins raised in different environments and looked for common characteristics. D. They studied good friends who shared a mostly common environment and looked for common characteristics.
IQ scores form a normal distribution with ยต = 100 and ? = 15 . Individuals with IQs between 90 and110 are classified as average. What proportion of the population is average?
a. 0.7486 c. 0.4972 b. 0.5028 d. 0.2486
A woman sets excessively high moral and ethical standards for herself. As a result, she constantly feels ashamed and guilty for making small mistakes and minor transgressions. Freud might say that
A. her id has become too powerful. B. she has too much psychic energy fixated at the oral stage of development. C. her ego has become too powerful. D. her superego has become too powerful.
Western religion often associates an afterlife with the concept of
a. materialism b. reincarnation c. heaven and hell d. transmigration of souls e. nirvana