Explain Yalom’s corrective recapitulation of the primary family group.

What will be an ideal response?


A group can evoke the same dynamics as a traditional family, and the way that clients from such families respond to each other and to cotherapists—trusting one while fearing the other, for example—can shed light on their interpersonal tendencies with other important people in their lives. These interaction styles can be identified and revealed to the client. New interaction styles can be practiced in the group.

Psychology

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The density-intensity hypothesis proposes that as density increases, discomfort in all situations also increases.

a.  True   b.  False

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What element of OCD applies to Richard (the case described in the textbook), who was obsessed with the idea that if he did not eat in a certain ritualistic way, he would become possessed?

a. Need for symmetry b. Magical thinking c. Emotional reasoning. d. Demonic obsessions

Psychology

Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)

1. Transience refers to forgetting that occurs as a result of divided attention. 2. Hermann Ebbinghaus first described how information in long-term memory is forgotten with the passage of time. 3. As time passes, information is lost from long-term memory at a constant rate. 4. As time passes, we begin to lose information in our long-term memory store at a faster and faster rate. 5. Most forgetting occurs soon after the occurrence of the event to be remembered.

Psychology

Amber learned French for 12 years in public school and for 2 more years in university. Nevertheless, only 1 year after she graduated from university, she realizes that she remembers very little French. This illustrates:

A) proactive interference. B) retroactive interference. C) absentmindedness. D) transience.

Psychology