Older adults experience less negative emotion and depression and more well-being because there is a higher amount of amygdala activation in their brains

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.


Answer: False.

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I am a ___ group therapist. I do not consider people to be irrational, selfish, or deeply troubled. Instead, I think people are striving to understand themselves and their life experiences.

  a.  psychodynamic   b.  psychodramatic   c.  cognitive-behavioral   d.  support   e.  humanistic

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The identification of antecedent events that evoke a behavior and reinforcing consequences that maintain a behavior is referred to as:

a. direct observation b. functional analysis c. experimental manipulation d. functional assessment

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During a workshop, the presenter asks everyone to reflect on their own identity. Kelly starts by reflecting on how she is Indian American, practices Hinduism, and that her parents were part of the Brahmin caste when they lived in India. Kelly is thinking about her ____.?

a. ?generativity b. ?ethnic identity c. ?ego integrity d. ?attachment behavior

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A researcher interested in resolving the issue of whether emotional states play a causal role in cancer must answer which of the following questions? a. Is Type A personality a consistent trait?

b. Are people at risk for cancer also at risk for coronary heart disease? c. Does knowledge that one has cancer cause changes in emotional states, or vice versa? d. Do we have enough retrospective data to make an unambiguous conclusion?

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