The rate of coronary heart disease is five times greater in Japanese Americans who become acculturated than in those who retain their traditional values. This fact supports which view of psychophysiological disorders?
a. sociocultural c. psychological
b. biological d. social
A
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The school board decided to send professional test administrators into the schools in an attempt to establish stricter standardization procedures for the administration of IQ tests. If you are from a socio-economically disadvantaged area, you can expect that the test scores for your school district will
a. benefit greatly from the use of outside examiners. b. be equal to the scores received by students in upper socio-economic groups. c. be more negatively impacted by the use of unfamiliar examiners than for wealthier districts. d. be more positively impacted by the use of unfamiliar examiners than for wealthier districts.
Which type of theorist would be most likely to describe intellectual development in terms of qualitative changes in thought with age (e.g., transformation from a caterpillar to a butterfly)?
a. A Piagetian b. A Vygotskyian c. An information-processor d. A psychometrician
According to Gordon Allport, secondary traits are:
a. less obvious personality traits that do not always appear in an individual's behavior b. personality traits that dominate an individual's life c. a small set of descriptive traits that can be used to accurately describe an individual d. three basic personality factors that exist in all individuals
Describe three of the more common subcategories of schizophrenia by presenting cases that illustrates their characteristics
What will be an ideal response?