External validity is essentially
a. the strength of the cause-effect relationship.
b. irrelevant to experimental research.
c. assured by using a double-blind procedure.
d. generalizability to situations beyond the specific study context.
D
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Dr. Rand, a clinical child psychologist, strives to understand his child patients’ behaviors within the context of what can be expected of a child at that particular age. Dr. Rand is using a _____ perspective.
A. holistic B. developmental C. client-centered D. bifurcated
Leo is unable to relax. He feels constantly "keyed up" and restless. His muscles are chronically tense, he is hypervigilant and apprehensive about the future, he often feels his heart pounding and he has trouble sleeping. His symptoms sound most like ____
a. panic c. conversion b. generalized anxiety d. a dissociative
Define problem-centered coping and emotion-centered coping. How do school-age children use these strategies?
What will be an ideal response?
Following the birth of his baby brother, five-year-old Ermen feels that he is no longer the center of his parents' attention. He resents this fact, but he is unable to express his dislike for his sibling for fear of being reprimanded. When Ermen is left to take care of his baby brother, he often resorts to hurting him but shows intense affection toward the baby in the presence of his family. According to Freudian psychoanalytic theory, this is an example of
A. displacement. B. projection. C. reaction formation. D. sublimation.