Marlene, your neighbor, has been struggling with depression. When you talk with her about it, she tells you that she is depressed, her mother has depression, and her grandmother was depressed, too. This explanation represents which type of causal explanation for mental illness?
a. Social Constructivist
b. Psychogenic
c. Supernatural
d. Somatogenic
Ans: d
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In Freud's theory, fixation at the anal stage might lead to which type of behaviors?
a. Either orderliness or messiness b. Drinking, smoking, and overeating c. Avoidance of other people d. Tension and competitiveness
Schachter and Singer's theory emphasizes the ____ component of emotion.
A. behavioral B. physiological C. cognitive D. active
Most auditory information is sent to which hemisphere of the brain?
A. The ipsilateral side B. The contralateral side C. The left hemisphere D. It depends on whether the individual is dominant for audition in the right or the left hemisphere
Prosecutors must seek justice, and not simply a conviction. However, once a case goes to trial, the subculture of winning is a difficult pressure to ignore. You are a prosecuting attorney in a rural county in Wyoming, trying a murder case. You know that most of the jurors that you will seat have no real scientific sense of what kinds of physical evidence are more valid than others. Are there kinds of physical evidence that you will not introduce into court, because they are too unreliable, even though the jurors will not know the difference? If so, why? If not, why not?
What will be an ideal response?