Tina is very upset over her evaluation at work because she has focused on the one minor criticism her boss made and has ignored the highly positive tone of the rest of the report. Which maladaptive thought pattern is Tina exhibiting?
a. overgeneralization c. geographic intelligence
b. selective attention d. polarized thinking
B
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Whenever House and Wilson argue, they bring up past issues. When they are getting along well, they have a hard time remembering what they argued about. What might produce this difference in the retrieval of memories??
a. ?flashbulb memory effect b. ?primacy of memories effect c. ?general knowledge effect d. ?mood congruency effect
The following are myths that psychiatry has clung on to EXCEPT:
a. Mental disorders have a similar prevalence around the world. b. Biology creates mental disorder. c. Psychological disorders are an interaction of biological, mental, social, and behavioral factors. d. Culture merely shapes the way a person experiences it. e. Culture-specific disorders occur only in exotic places, rather than here at home.
An educational practice referred to as ________ integrates all students, even those with the most severe disabilities into regular classes
A) integration B) unrestrictive C) full inclusion D) mainstreaming
According to the text, optimistic bias is defined as
a. the gap between what children and adolescents can accomplish alone and what they are capable of doing if guided by a more competent peer. b. the tendency to assume that accidents, diseases, and other misfortunes are more likely to happen to others than ourselves. c. the cognitive process that occurs when a scheme is changed to adapt new information or assimilate prior knowledge. d. an aspect of short-term memory that refers to where information may be influenced by heuristic thinking