Recent studies on cognitive-behavioral factors involved in bulimia nervosa have shown that bingeing and purging may function as means of
a) relieving stress and negative affect
b) increasing energy and thus mood
c) feeling in control of the situation
d) distracting oneself from inner pain
a
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Tara is a 4-year-old girl who is very polite. Ever since she was able to talk, her mother expected her to say please and thank you. When Tara would behave politely, her mother would praise her. Tara's behavior was shaped through ______.
A. operant conditioning B. classical conditioning C. genetics D. modeling
In studies that looked at the association between violent video games and aggressiveness, the researchers found that
a. the level of violence displayed in the video game was the determining factor in whether the participants showed aggression when given the chance. b. the competitiveness, difficulty, or pacing of a game may influence aggression levels just as much, if not more, than the violent content of the game. c. the violent video games actually sensitized the players so that they reacted negatively to the violence shown and were less likely to imitate it. d. only young children were influenced to imitate the violence with adolescents and adults not being significantly affected.
Skeptics of dissociative identity disorder (DID) argue that
A) DID should really be referred to as schizophrenia. B) it should be easy to test objectively the validity of DID. C) DID is likely caused by traumatic experiences. D) some therapists actually provoke dissociative symptoms during therapy.
Brain growth is especially dramatic during __________, when the brain more than doubles in size
A) the first year B) the second year C) middle childhood D) adolescence