The term representing disorders that involve loss of touch with reality, are typified by bizarre behaviors, hallucinations, and beliefs, and are generally severe in nature is __________.
A. neurosis
B. psychosis
C. organic disorder
D. mania
Answer: B
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Chapter 4 discussed a classic study by Wickens and his colleagues (1976) in which each of five groups of participants learned a series of words belonging to one category (e.g., "occupations" or "meats")
On the final trial, they all switched to words belonging to a new category ("fruits"). What did the results of this study show about the recall for this final set of words? a. Contrary to expectations, semantic similarity had no influence on recall. b. Contrary to expectations, participants explained that they stored these final words in terms of visual images. c. Participants in all five groups showed no release from proactive interference. d. Recall on the final set of words was most accurate when the previous items had belonged to a different semantic category.
The discrepancy in the location of an object's image on each retina relative to its distance from the eye is called ______.
A. receptive deviation B. integrative dissimilarity C. retinal disparity D. contrast enhancement
In the Bartholow et al. (2005) study on aggression and violent video games, students who were relatively experienced and those who were inexperienced responded differently to competition because
A) the experienced participants were older than the inexperienced. B) the two groups of participants interpreted their competitors' behavior in different ways. C) the inexperienced participants did not like the competitive task as much as the experienced ones. D) the inexperienced participants were more confused by the competitive task.
The "girls all get prettier at closing time study" cited by Sheets documents which of Cialdini's six weapons of influence?
A. scarcity B. liking C. reactance D. commitment/consistency