After witnessing an accident that killed his daughter, George reports he is blind. Although he bumps into objects at home and elsewhere, he shows lack of concern about his blindness. Specialists have found nothing wrong with the structure or function of his eyes and an MRI reveals no evidence of brain damage. After holding a case conference, a team of professionals suggests that George be evaluated for __________
a) hypochondriasis.
b) conversion disorder.
c) somatization disorder.
d) psychophysiological disorder.
b
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a. high need for achievement
b. high fear of failure
c. very efficient self-handicapping strategy
d. reasonable excuse for occasional failure
Lexical ambiguity studies show that people access ambiguous words based on
A. the identification of a single meaning for that word. B. the meaning dominance of each definition of the word. C. the word that comes immediately before and the word that comes immediately after the ambiguous word in the sentence. D. a bottom-up progression of meaning comprehension.
PHENOTYPE is to GENOTYPE as ____ is to ____
a. MASCULINE :: FEMININE b. VISIBLE :: HIDDEN c. SOLITARY :: SOCIAL d. DARKNESS :: LIGHT
Describe the newer view of working memory compared to the three stages model
What will be an ideal response?