Honey makes daily threats that she is going to kill herself and she has had made several unsuccessful attempts. Mental health professionals who work with suicidal clients know that ____
a. Honey is trying to get attention
b. Honey is not serious about taking her life
c. Honey's threats should be taken seriously
d. Honey is more likely to kill someone other than herself
C
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Which of the following is most linked to utopian thinking?
a. Egocentric thinking b. Concrete thinking c. Hypothetical thinking d. Inductive thinking
Fifty-one-year old Paulette recently learned that she has terminal stage IV pancreatic cancer. She calls the doctor's office repeatedly and demands that she be tested again because she is sure they made a mistake. According to Kübler-Ross, Paulette is displaying signs of which stage of dying?
A. denial B. anger C. bargaining D. depression
A psychologist wants to assess the construct validity of a new test. He can do so by showing that ____
a. scores at Time 1 predict behavior at Time 2 b. all portions of the test produce similar results c. the test results for a group correlate with related measures of a phenomenon d. scores on the test are consistent over time
Cronbach's Alpha is used to overcome limitations associated with reliability assessed using the ____ method
a. inter-rater b. split-half c. average inter-item correlation d. average item-total correlation