When you are faced with an ambiguous stimulus, you must organize what you see in terms of your own life experiences. This is the rationale behind
a. objective tests.
b. rating scales.
c. projective tests.
d. behavioral assessments.
C
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The tendency toward making internal attributions, and ignoring external situational factors, when explaining people's behavior is called the __________.
A. fundamental attribution error B. self-serving bias C. cognitive dissonance D. situation ignorance
Gender-role stereotypes are a(n) ____ when children feel compelled to perform the expectations focused on them
a. self-fulfilling prophecy b. secondary circular reaction c. androgynous segregator d. phallic hyperextension
Of the following, the best definition of "exposure therapy" is a treatment approach where an individual is repeatedly exposed to
A. a conditioned stimulus (CS) until it is no longer fear-provoking. B. a calm, relaxing environment until they are no longer afraid. C. another conditioned stimulus (CS) that produces a pleasant response. D. the non-frightening aspects of the conditioned stimulus (CS).
When asked where the sun goes at night, four-year-old Kiet explains to his dad that it goes to sleep. Later that day, Kiet gets upset because he believes his sister's glass contains more juice than his glass. Both glasses actually contain the same amount of juice, but Kiet is confused because of the tall and thin shape of his sister's glass. From these instances, we can say that Kiet is in the ________ stage of Piaget's cognitive development.
A. preoperational B. concrete operations C. formal operations D. sensorimotor