The negative connotations that some people associate with a diagnosis of a mental disorder is called a __________.

A. social stigma
B. prejudice
C. stress-vulnerability
D. comorbid diagnosis


Answer: A

Psychology

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a. Boys are more likely than girls to receive encouragement and support for participation in sports. b. Parents emphasize physical activity of boys more so than girls in the preschool years. c. By middle childhood, girls are more involved in competitive games than boys. d. Boys tend to engage in more vigorous activity, on average, than girls.

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What is Freud's term for the unconscious efforts by the ego to deny or distort reality for the purpose of protecting itself when conflict becomes too intense?

A) false cognitions B) coping techniques C) disordered thinking D) defense mechanisms

Psychology

We compute a test statistic to ______.

A. check that individual differences can be matched between groups B. determine whether a within-subjects design or a between-subjects design is most likely to account for differences observed between groups C. test the hypothesis that participants were assigned to groups at random D. determine whether some manipulation or individual differences are likely to account for mean differences observed between groups

Psychology

According to Baughman et al. (2012), high dark triad scorers were especially prone to using the ________ of manipulation.

A. charm tactic B. coercion tactic C. regression tactic D. hardball tactic

Psychology