A clinical psychologist is interested in minimizing the delusions in a patient with schizophrenia. Amethod for doing this involves ____
a. weakening and then directly challenging the delusions
b. relaxation training and response prevention
c. exaggeration and humor, followed by aversive conditioning
d. agreeing with the delusional ideas until they seem absurd
A
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When Katie's grandpa shows her a group of ten hogs and three cattle and asks her, “Are there more hogs or more animals?” Katie responds by saying, “There are more animals, Grandpa.” One year earlier, she would have said that there were more hogs. According to Piaget's theory, it is most likely that Katie is currently in which stage??
a. ?sensorimotor b. ?preoperational c. ?concrete operational d. ?postconventional
Sensory memory is the stage of memory that
a. holds small amounts of information when one is thinking or problem-solving. b. holds an exact record of incoming information for a few seconds or less. c. involves the permanent storage of meaningful information. d. involves the storage of conditioned responses and learned skills.
In O'Connor v. Donaldson the Supreme Court ruled that mental illness and a need for treatment
A. were sufficient reasons for involuntary commitment. B. were insufficient reasons for involuntary commitment if a family member was willing to care for the person. C. were sufficient reasons for involuntary commitment if the person needing treatment was a minor, not an adult. D. were insufficient reasons for involuntary commitment if the person was not dangerous.
Research suggests that social context is an important external cue that affects people's eating. Researchers suggest that which of the following social interventions could help overweight children eat less?
a. encouraging children to eat alone b. encouraging children to "graze" c. returning to circumstances in which children eat in the presence of others d. providing continual verbal reminders that the children are eating too much