People who are exposed repeatedly to unpleasant events over which they have no control may become passively resigned to those outcomes. This is called __________
a) avoidance learning.
b) learned helplessness.
c) extinction.
d) cognitive dissonance.
b Explanation: Learned helplessness is Seligman's term for those who come to
believe that they have no influence or control in the events that affect their lives.
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Carl Jung's childhood experiences included:
a. a typically happy and peaceful Swiss family life. b. the attention and adoration of a young and attractive mother. c. a life of ease based on his father's success in business. d. personal loneliness plus the marital conflicts and mental instability of his parents.
During the Age of Reason, many health professionals, who supported the medical model, began to:
A) discourage humane treatment to cure psychological disorders. B) believe that psychological disorders had biological causes but could not be cured. C) view psychological disorders as diseases of the mind. D) associate a person's life experiences with psychological disorders.
If a study showed that a particular treatment produced an improvement in 55% of the participants, while 52% of the control participants improved spontaneously, the treatment
a. Would undoubtedly be statistically significant b. Would lack clinical significance c. Would have clinical significance, but not statistical significance d. Is worth adopting.
Describe the trichromatic, opponent-process, and retinex theories of color vision.
What will be an ideal response?