Researchers have taken issue with the Social Readjustment Rating Scale with regard to the relationship between the number of life events and subsequent psychosomatic symptoms. More recent scales have found that:
a. there is little relationship between these two elements
b. only severe symptoms such as asthma and high blood pressure are related to life events
c. appraisal of negative events is a more important predictor of illness than of positive events
d. a modest correlation exists but only for middle-aged individuals
C
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Procedural memory is to ____ as declarative memory is to ____
a. jogging; walking b. reading; writing c. carrying on a conversation; listening to the radio d. juggling; explaining the sequence of moves in juggling
If you are making use of information-rich higher mental processes, such as organizing various research articles in writing your term paper, you are engaged in a complex form of
a. classical conditioning. b. cognitive learning. c. respondent learning. d. operant conditioning.
_____________________ is the state of being easily activated, or primed, for use
A) Exemplar mapping B) Negative stereotyping C) Sensory memory D) Chronic accessibility
Scott Starson has:
a) Authored several stories on mental illness published in the Toronto Star b) Authored several articles in scientific journals c) Written the Pulitzer Prize winning story "A Beautiful Mind" d) None of the above; he has plagiarized several newspaper stories