As part of a fraternity initiation ritual, Saul is instructed to interrupt a school basketball game by running on the court naked while singing the nursery rhyme "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star."
If Sam complies with this ritual, his behavior would best illustrate ________.
a) psychosis
b) distress
c) disability
d) statistical rarity
ANS: D, If Sam complies with the ritual, which we might hope he does not!), his behavior would surely be statistically deviant.
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is the study of psychological dysfunctions that a person experiences in terms of distress or impairment in functioning.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Consuming five or more drinks in a row for men, and four in a row for women, is known as __________.
A. binge drinking B. alcoholism C. social drinking D. risk-taking drinking
Some statisticians have shown that instead of using the special procedures involved in rank-order tests, approximately the same results can be obtained by transforming the scores into ranks and then
A) figuring a Spearman Z. B) finding the mean of the scores' inverses. C) applying all the usual arithmetic for figuring an ordinary parametric test, such as a t test. D) applying all the usual arithmetic for figuring a typical nonparametric test, such as a Wilcoxon signed-rank test.
Hansen, Meissler, and Ovens (2000) have used aspects of ______ and ______ to develop play therapy programs for children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
a. social norm theory; reactance theory b. social norm theory; cognitive dissonance theory c. social learning theory; cognitive dissonance theory d. social learning theory; the fundamental attribution error