A major contribution of the psychoanalytic theorists is
a. psychodrama as a therapeutic tool.
b. the concept of reward and punishment.
c. recognition that childhood events affect future development.
d. the idea that group dynamics help therapeutically.
C
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With regard to language learning, nativists believe that
a. language is learned as a result of differential parental reinforcement. b. children learn language by listening, observing, and imitating. c. children are biologically programmed for language acquisition. d. the social environment plays the most critical role in language learning.
Dr. Jones wants to determine whether women who smoke while pregnant will have children with more respiratory problems than those born to mothers who do not smoke. The reason Dr. Jones cannot conduct an experiment is because
a. women in the control group might still have children with respiratory problems. b. the placebo group needs to be given cigarettes as well. c. women in the control group would be manipulated. d. assignment of women to the experimental group would be unethical.
A therapist who is working with a client diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder decides to use stress inoculation training. Which of the following is likely to take place during this treatment?
a. First, the client is taught how certain thought patterns lead to anxiety, and is also taught how to cope with potential threats. Next, the client rehearses these coping skills and then applies them in various stressful conditions. b. The client is "flooded" or "imploded" with anxiety by being forced to remain in the most anxiety-provoking situation imaginable, thus decreasing the anxiety experienced in similar but less extreme situations. c. Unconscious conflicts that underlie the anxiety are explored in order to neutralize the anxiety at the most fundamental psychological level. d. more than one of the above
In Robert Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence, which of the following is also called "componential intelligence?"
a) Practical intelligence b) Existential intelligence c) Creative intelligence d) Analytic intelligence