Norma enters a psychiatric hospital. She is diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. Which type of treatment is most likely to be offered?
a. antipsychotic medication and psychotherapy
b. electroshock therapy
c. prefrontal lobotomy
d. covert sensitization and antidepressant medication
a
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Regarding obedience, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. Obedience to authority is necessary and desirable in many circumstances. b. The classic studies on obedience were conducted by B. F. Skinner at Harvard University. c. A person will often obey a legitimate authority long after this authority's demands have become unreasonable. d. A personal act of courage or moral fortitude by one or two members of a group may free others to disobey misguided or unjust authority.
A group of executives meet to decide on cost-cutting options for the company. They eventually decide to fire 15 percent of the employees, a decision more extreme than any of the executives had previously advocated. The decision is an example of:
a. interaction-oriented leadership c. social facilitation b. social inhibition d. group polarization
A group of 3- to 6-year-old children was told about a man named "Sam Stone." For several weeks, "Sam" was described to them as being clumsy
Upon his visit, he did nothing to confirm this stereotype. How did this impact the children's memory? A) Many 3- and 4-year-olds responded to these suggestions, but few of the older children did. B) Many of the 5- and 6-year-olds responded to these suggestions, but few of the younger children did. C) Over half the children, regardless of age, responded to these suggestions as well as later information that Sam soiled a bear and tore a book. D) Over half the children, regardless of age, responded to these suggestions while lower percentages also reported that Sam soiled a bear and tore a book.
According to _______, the language we speak determines the pattern of our thinking and our view of the world
a. Benjamin Whorf's linguistic relativity hypothesis b. Noam Chomsky's theory of transformations c. Howard Gardner's theory of intelligence d. the Flynn Effect