Eileen goes to a therapist for help in losing weight. She and her therapist develop a contract spelling out weekly step-by-step methods to reach Eileen's ultimate weight goal
The plan specifies rewards for reaching weekly goals and penalties for not achieving her weekly objectives. Eileen is undergoing ______.
a. classical conditioning c. desensitization
b. behavioral contracting d. a token economy
B
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In the United States, why has it become difficult to determine when one has become an adult?
a. It hasn't? one is an adult in the U.S. at age 18. b. ?Children are physically reaching adulthood later than in past generations. c. ?Cognitive ability defines adulthood and is difficult to measure. d. One legally becomes an adult at different ages in the U.S. depending upon whether you're voting, driving, orgetting married.
____ is NOT identified by the text as a therapeutic factor in groups.
a. Hope b. Guidance c. Cohesion d. Altruism e. Fantasy
Glutamate, serotonin, and GABA are all currently being considered as possible neurotransmitters involved in the development of:
a. depression b. anxiety disorders c. schizophrenia d. personality disorders
Toddler Jamie is just learning to put words together into phrases. Although his mother is able to understand what it is he wants or means, Jamie's grammar is typically not correct. Jamie one day tells his mother, “I goed store.” Rather than correct Jamie, his mother praises him for talking as she understands the meaning behind the sentence. This exchange between Jamie and his mother argues against which of the following?
A. a universal language theory B. an operant conditioning explanation of language development C. sensitive periods of language development D. a biological basis for language acquisition