What is the correct sequence of events in obsessive-compulsive disorder?
A) Thoughts trigger anxiety, compulsions try to reduce the anxiety, compulsions produce new anxiety-producing situations.
B) Situations trigger uncontrollable thoughts, compulsions try to erase the thoughts, the compulsionstrigger anxiety.
C) Compulsions produce anxiety, anxiety triggers obsessive thoughts, thoughts produce new obsessions.
D) Situations trigger uncontrollable thoughts, thoughts trigger anxiety, compulsions try to reduce the anxiety.
D) Situations trigger uncontrollable thoughts, thoughts trigger anxiety, compulsions try to reduce the anxiety.
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a. Aggression can occur in the absence of frustration. b. Frustration may encourage aggression because it makes us uncomfortable. c. Frustration may lead to stereotyped responding or a state of "learned helplessness.". d. Frustration inhibits innate patterns that lower aggression.
Ivan Pavlov is most closely associated with ______
a. the Law of Effect c. vicarious learning b. classical conditioning d. operant conditioning
What did Leon Festinger's (1957) original formulation of dissonance theory posit? Be sure to address what cognitive dissonance is, how and when it arises, and what people do to reduce it
What will be an ideal response?
Consider the following problem and then choose which of the statements below is NOT true. If each of 10 people at a meeting shakes hands (once) with every other person, how many handshakes are exchanged?
a. The descriptive model might be "Ten people shaking hands with nine folks each… a couple fewer because you want to avoid repetitions . . . say something like maybe sixty to seventy?" b. The normative method will yield the "correct" answer: in this case, N x ((N-1)/2). c. A heuristic approach is not necessarily systematic or orderly, instead relying on educated guessing. d. The algorithmic approach will differ substantially from the normative model of what is "right"; that is, it is particularly prone to distortions, inaccuracies, and omissions.