A situation of loss in which there is no resolution or closure is known as:
ambiguous loss.
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Dr. Malloy explains to his patient that a person's threatening thoughts are often repressed so that he or she will be unaware of them. However, these repressed thoughts might "surface" in dreams, expressed emotions, or "slips of the tongue." Dr. Malloy has just explained the ideas of which school of thought in psychology?
a. structuralism b. psychoanalytic psychology c. humanistic psychology d. Gestalt psychology
According to research cited in the text, when caregivers were asked to comment about the relief they felt following their loved one's death
About ____ reported that death was a relief to them and about ____ reported that they felt it provided a welcome relief to the person who died. a. 5%; 50% b. 35%; 55% c. 50%; 50% d. 72%; 90%
Children often exhibit increases in the variability of their strategy use during periods of rapid changes in thinking.
a. true b. false
Neurons that respond to features that make up objects are called
a. retinal cells. b. feature detectors. c. dendrites. d. receptors.