Darla was fired from her most recent job. Based on Seligman's investigations into the cognitive factors that might contribute to depression, Darla will be MOST prone to depression if she attributes her firing to
a. her lack of ability to do her job successfully.
b. the bad mood that her boss was in on the day she was fired.
c. a general downturn in the economy that resulted in massive layoffs.
d. her coworker who started a number of false rumors about Darla.
A
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Marta studies patients who have hemiparesis. She believes that a person’s coping strategy can predict how likely they are to deny their paralysis. She asks family members of each patient to recall how the person dealt with stress prior to the onset of hemiparesis. One problem with this approach is the potential for ____ when the family is asked to recall information about coping and denial.?
a. ?inattentional blindness b. ?motivated forgetting c. ?decay d. ?retrospective bias
In order for two blindfolded chess players to play a game, they must rely on all of the following EXCEPT
a. respondent conditioning. b. images. c. concepts. d. the notational system of chess.
Researchers have found that ______ can produce alterations in consciousness that can be measured through such sophisticated methods as brain imaging
a. neither meditation nor hypnosis c. hypnosis, but not meditation b. meditation, but not hypnosis d. both hypnosis and meditation
The first person to propose an experimentally testable model of how the brain controls the body was
a) Vesalius b) Willis c) Locke d) Descartes