When people in Western countries try to find reasons for someone else's behavior, they tend to:
a. ignore dispositional attributions in favor of situational attributions.
b. leap to the attribution that people's behaviors correspond to the context.
c. explore the personality traits and the environmental constraints to derive an explanation.
d. overestimate personality traits and underestimate the influence of the situation.
d
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Kazdin, Whitley, and Marciano (2006) assert that the most important factor for a positive outcome in children with oppositional, aggressive, or antisocial behaviors is ____
a. a therapeutic relationship with parents/mentors that involves empathy, warmth, and acceptance b. covert sensitization to reduce attention problems c. giving children more control over their environment d. providing assertiveness training to children to help them become more independent
About ____ percent of all children are mentally retarded
a. 3 b. 13 c. 23 d. 33
Factitious mental disorders are disorders that
a. involve a loss of personal identity. b. involve pain. c. involve fetishes. d. involve false reports of symptoms. e. are biologically based.
According to Baumrind's research, permissive-indifferent parents are likely to have children who are ______
a. distrustful c. assertive b. dependent d. intellectual