Ike heard voices telling him the children had put worms in his brain. He planned for weeks how he would kill them. Ike's insanity defense failed. The jury must have decided that:

a. he did not have serious psychological problems
b. he met the cultural and statistical deviance criteria but not the dysfunction or distress criteria
c. a medical problem, not a psychological problem, caused his thought disorder
d. he was capable of understanding the wrongfulness of his actions


D

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Ryckman believes that, despite Jung's claims that the anima and animus are universal phenomena, the descriptions sound curiously like:

a. present-day cultural gender-role stereotypes b. the superego construct of Freud c. they apply only to a specifically Christian work-ethic society d. they suggest applicability only for matriarchal societies

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Your grandmother, who is 72, just found out that she has osteoporosis. Her birthday is coming up and you thought you would get her a gift that would also help her improve her bone density and perhaps reverse the progress of osteoporosis

What gift should you give her? a. a heating pad b. weight-lifting equipment c. a cane d. salt-bath solutions

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A psychotherapist says to her client, "Say whatever comes to your mind, no matter how strange or painful it may seem." The psychotherapist is encouraging

a. transference. b. resistance. c. free association. d. counter-transference.

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