After receiving an urgent call from his father about an automobile accident involving his mother, Peter races to the hospital. He learns from the hospital staff that his mother is brain dead. The emergency room physician explains to Peter that his mother ____.
A. has a 50% chance of making a full recovery depending on the success of upcoming surgeries and physical therapy
B. requires a respirator because there was selective damage to her brain stem
C. suffered irreversible damage to her cerebral cortex and will not regain consciousness
D. can hear his voice and knows that Peter and his father are with her
Answer: C
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a. "You cross-dress because it allows you to experience sexual arousal." b. "As a child, you over-identified with your strong and independent father." c. "Your mother encouraged you to have male friendships when you were growing up." d. "Your parents must have discouraged your development of autonomy."
The psychiatrist who first identified many of the defense mechanisms and assumed these mechanisms operated unconsciously was __________
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Behavioral and cognitive theorists propose that people who develop narcissistic personality disorder may have been treated:
A. either too positively or too negatively in early life B. too negatively in early life C. too positively early in life D. ambiguously and neglectf
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a) Bandura b) Tolman c) Skinner d) Pavlov