Which of the following best describes the emotions felt by many middle adults living in northern Europe and the United States when their young adult children move out of their house?
a. empty nest syndrome
b. loss and liberation
c. depression and anxiety
d. jubilation and "good riddance"
Answer: B
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b. Health insurance will not pay for untested treatments. c. Therapists can use empirically supported treatments with less education and training. d. Empirically supported treatments can be applied without asking for informed consent.
When part of the libido remains tied to an earlier stage of development, _____ has occurred
a. extinction b. conditioning c. fixation d. constructivism
An industrial-organizational psychologist conducts an experiment to determine whether having control over difficult tasks reduces stress for game designers and finds this explanation to be true. Drawing on the results of similar experiments, this psychologist explains these overall findings by creating a
a. theory. b. testable observation. c. hypothesis. d. law.
The tendency of a previously extinguished behaviour to re-occur following a rest period is called:
A) sensitization. B) generalization. C) spontaneous recovery. D) acquisition.