A __________ approach focuses on how much of a diagnostic characteristic an individual exhibits

Answer:


dimensional

Psychology

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Suppose that you are studying for a biopsychology examination, and you decide to try asking yourself questions about why various structures in the central nervous system operate the way they do

According to the discussion of memory strategies, your technique would a. enhance encoding specificity. b. promote simple rehearsal. c. lead to divided attention.

Psychology

The type of learning in which reflexive behaviors that would automatically follow one type of stimulus are elicited by different, formerly neutral stimuli, is called ______

a. cognitive restructuring c. vicarious learning b. operant conditioning d. classical conditioning

Psychology

Under what conditions might a clinician find a clinical judgment, rather than statistical data, useful?

A) When there are no relevant statistical data upon which to rely. B) When the clinician's intuition leads her away from the statistical data. C) When the training of the therapist lends itself more readily to clinical judgment than to empirical studies. D) When the statistical data point to the efficacy of a treatment in which the clinician is not trained.

Psychology

In grade school children, the correlation between conformity to parents and conformity to peers is:

a. negative b. positive c. nonsignificant d. highly positive

Psychology