Jack believes that the FBI has wire tapped his phone. He regularly checks his house for bugging devices. When he leaves the house, he always checks each window and takes a different route to his destination. Jack buys bottled water because he believes the FBI may try to poison his water. Jack is exhibiting the most common delusional disorder, which is
a. paranoid psychosis.
b. schizophrenia.
c. the erotomanic type.
d. the histrionic type.
A
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The area of the frontal lobe that plays an important role in the production of speech is called
a. Wernicke's area. b. Broca's area. c. Cannon's area. d. Sperry's area.
Watson argued that the failure of psychology as a natural science was due to ____.?
a. ?the fact that data of introspection cannot be replicated b. ?blaming the observer rather than the method for failure to replicate in introspection c. ?the failure to operationally define terms in common use by psychologists d. ?the use of mechanistic terms e. ?All of the choices are correct.
A reliable operational definition is
a. never valid. b. not always valid. c. always valid. d. valid as long as the procedure used in the study is valid. e. valid as long as an appropriate sample is used in the study.
If I wanted to measure the number of nightmares in children before and after they learned a meditation technique, and the events of September 11, 2001 happened during the meditation training, it would be an example of which of these problems for experimentation?
a. history c. maturation b. disruption d. testing