A cancer patient has decided to face his/her disease with courage and make whatever adjustments are necessary to enjoy his/her remaining time. According to Kobasa, this patient demonstrates the __________ characteristic of psychological hardiness
a. control c. character
b. challenge d. confidence
B
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The ability to withstand or rise above extreme adversity is known as
a. extraversion. b. perseverance. c. resilience. d. mental health.
The guidelines on multicultural education, training, research, practice, and organizational change for psychologists" passed by the American Psychological Association makes it clear that mental health service providers ____
a. need to become aware of how their own culture, life experiences, attitudes, values, and biases have influenced them b. are encouraged but not mandated to provide multiculturally competent treatment c. are to provide the least restrictive environment across cultures d. are to take action when a person is unable to care for himself or herself or does not have the social network to provide for such care
The advent of humans' settling in places and adopting a sedentary lifestyle based on agriculture, about 10,000 years ago, allowed people to
a. specialize in various skills. c. socialize more often. b. hunt more often. d. have more children.
You are a graduate student in clinical psychology, and you want to study perception in human volunteers. You plan to ask subjects to describe scenes and note in which ways the subjects group (or do not group) the items in each scene. Which approach will you be using?
A. geon encoding B. perception/action C. computational D. Gestalt