Donna comes to counseling because she thinks that she has obsessive compulsive disorder. She has numerous obsessive thoughts. One of these thoughts is that she has left the coffee-maker on in her apartment and that it will start a fire that will burn the building down. The coffee-maker worry results in her returning to her apartment 3 or 4 times each morning, and she is often late to work. Donna’s solution-focused therapy counselor, Bob, wonders aloud if she is sensitive to detail, routine and order. Bob has _________
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Answer: disrupted the pattern of the complaint
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Ramon and Edith have been married for 60 years and, when a local news station interviews them on their anniversary, they both say that their relationship keeps getting better and better, every year. What does longitudinal research on marital relationships say about how marital relationships change over time?
a. What matters is what they believe and if they believe their relationship is getting better, it must be getting better. b. When a marriage has lasted as long as theirs has, it is almost certainly getting better over time. c. In general, people in very long-term relationships will say they are getting better even if they are getting worse. d. While people may say their relationship is getting better, research indicates that their actual ratings of the relationship will either stay the same or get worse.
A memory of an emotional or dramatic event that was encoded without effort and with great detail is called:
A. flashbulb memory B. emotion-dependent memory C. state-dependent memory D. explicit memory
Your textbook described a study in which people saw an ambiguous figure, for instance, a sketch that could represent either a rabbit or a duck. When the figure was removed, the people were asked to create a mental image of the figure
The results showed that a. people could not create any mental images of the figures. b. people created the mental image but could not reinterpret the mental image. c. people created the mental image, and they also reinterpreted the mental image. d. the demand characteristics were so strong that the results of this study are questionable
In trying to explain the nature of genius, Eysenck claims that:
a. geniuses throughout history have nearly all been psychologically healthy b. there is a positive correlation between genius and psychopathology c. all paranoid schizophrenics are geniuses d. geniuses have had to exploit others to get ahead