A researcher is studying how anxiety tends to be experienced by people of different ages. The researcher interviews anxious adolescents, young adults, individuals in their 30s and 50s, and those over 70 . The individuals in each age group represent a
a. treatment group
b. control group.
c. longitudinal group.
d. cohort.
d
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Suppose that you know someone who says her therapist has told her she has a ruminative style in dealing with depression. This means that she is likely to
a. react violently to unhappy events. b. think extensively about the reasons for her depression. c. do something creative to take her mind off her problems. d. show denial, avoiding any inclination to think about why she might be depressed.
Research on the long-term effects of attachment has found
A) preschoolers who had been securely attached were happier and more compliant. B) preschoolers with secure attachments were less popular and had lower self-esteem. C) teens that had been securely attached as infants had more psychological problems. D) by age 10 years, children in the securely attached classification were still more dependent.
Lara is taken by her friends to the mental health crisis unit. She suffer from chronic alcoholism but has had no other previous history of mental problems. She says that she is frightened because she believes that bugs are crawling on her skin
The emergency room psychiatrist would be correct to hypothesize that Lara was manifesting ______. a. delirium tremens from alcohol withdrawal b. an acute schizophrenic episode c. the manic phase of a bipolar disorder d. a pseudo-epileptic seizure
According to structuralists, consciousness encompasses three basic categories of experience, including sensations, feelings, and:
a) behaviors. b) motives. c) drives. d) images.