Randall is an alcoholic who has been fired from four jobs in the past year, but he is not concerned because he feels that there are lots of other jobs available. In this example, the fact that Randall's alcoholism affects his occupational status would MOST likely be considered
a. personally distressing.
b. maladaptive.
c. culturally deviant.
d. legal incompetency.
B
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Hypnosis is not really a unique or special approach to managing pain.” Support this statement by explaining how hypnosis incorporates other behavioral or cognitive techniques for pain management that may seem less “special” or “mysterious,” and how hypnosis may reflect placebo and expectancy effects.
What will be an ideal response?
Emilio has devoted his life to teaching in urban schools. After a particularly stressful period in which several of his programs were eliminated, Emilio began to act exhausted mentally and physically, and he began skipping all the extra activities he had sponsored in the past. Emilio is showing the symptoms of:
a. posttraumatic stress disorder b. burnout c. Type A personality d. a dissociative disorder
Four-year-old Jasmine is asked to remember objects on a tray that she is shown for one minute. During the minute she is shown the objects, Jasmine looks at and touches each object. Jasmine is
a. using a memory strategy. c. monitoring. b. using a script. d. testing an alternate hypothesis.
Based on children's ratings of who they like or dislike among their peers, researchers have described four categories of social status: __________.
A. socially isolated, hostile, preppy, and smart children B. sub-average, average, above average, and three-deviations-from-the-mean children C. popular, rejected, neglected, and controversial children D. social, accepted, rejected, and unpopular