Which type of therapy is based on using learning principles, such as classical conditioning?

A) behavioral
B) insight
C) psychoanalysis
D) client-centered


Answer: A
Rationale: Behavioral therapies use the principles of learning to reduce or modify behavior, and to account for how the behaviors were originally acquired.

Psychology

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A. have not provided support for the notion that a susceptibility to alcoholism can be inherited B. have been unable to determine if the tendency of alcoholism to "run in families" is a result of environmental or biological factors C. suggest that an inherited altered sensitivity to alcohol might create a vulnerability to alcohol abuse D. have identified the gene that causes alcoholism

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The social biology and evolutionary factor for universality of ethnocentrism and prejudice suggests that sentiments about ethnicity and race are logical extensions of kinship sentiment—that is, the favoring of kin over nonkin

a) True b) False

Psychology

The East Barbarians softball team in the Great White North Softball League has continually improved its record over the nine years it has been in the league. Most recently, the East Barbarians, with the same team members as in the previous eight years, won the league championship for the first time. In this scenario, winning the championship probably BEST exemplifies the effects of:

a. the group's homogeneity b. the stability of group membership c. group status d. group communication structure

Psychology

In a discipline that Kant called ____, he discussed such topics as gender differences, marriage, insanity, and the production and control of human behavior.

a. philosophy b. anthropology c. monadology d. direct realism

Psychology