Roger overhears loud voices in the apartment next door, and immediately assumes that his neighbors are engaged in a domestic battle. He then talks on the phone with his friend Lamont, and learns that his friend had a very bad day: Lamont lost his job AND discovered a large dent in his car. Roger jumps to some quick conclusions. "Someone is trying to attack you," he advises Lamont. "They dented
your car on purpose. It is probably no accident that you lost your job this week either; someone there is out to get you!" Roger's quick assumptions about others' intentions indicate a ____.
a. Type A attributional bias
b. hostile expectation bias
c. hostile perception bias
d. fundamental attribution error
C
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a. a polygraph test. b. an internalized interrogation. c. the voir dire process. d. a sequential line up.
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a. 22 to 23 b. 28 to 29 c. 25 to 26 d. 31 to 32
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a. developing strong client skills in free association. b. helping clients understand the manifest content of their dreams. c. analysis of the transference relationship. d. exploration of countertransference. e. helping clients understand the latent content of their dreams.
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A. would experience stronger than normal emotions B. would experience weaker than normal emotions C. would be especially sensitive to fear D. would have an overactive amygdala