Researchers analyzed interviews with actual child victims of sexual abuse, which reveal that the presumed child sexual abuse syndrome (CSAAS) is largely not confirmed in abused children. This is because they found that most children disclose abuse ________ and later recantations of the admitted abuse are ________.

A) in the first or second interview; very common
B) only after multiple interviews; very common
C) in the first or second interview; rare
D) only after multiple interviews; rare


Ans: C) in the first or second interview; rare

Psychology

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Researchers who ask teens and young adults about their beliefs in God and religious attendance find that the percentage believing in God was fairly stable across this age range, and attendance at religious services

a. declined across age. b. also remained constant across age. c. rose steadily across age. d. remained constant across adolescence and rose in young adulthood.

Psychology

Dr. Maloff is studying the effects of ethnic bias on the school performance of immigrant children. Most likely, Dr. Maloff is a __________ psychologist

a. psychoanalytic c. sociocultural b. behavioral d. school

Psychology

?Identifying which general class of problems to which a presenting problem belongs is known as a(n) ________ strategy.

a. idiographic b. nomothetic c. classification d. categorical

Psychology

Which of the following reinforcement schedules produces behaviors which are difficult to extinguish?

a. interval b. fixed c. partial d. continuous

Psychology