A prisoner is violent and hostile, although he wasn't always this way. His therapist believes that the environment the prisoner was raised in brought about his aggressive tendencies
The therapist is espousing the view that behavior is primarily influenced by
a. nature.
b. biology.
c. nurture.
d. heredity.
Answer: c. nurture.
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Matt has been studying for several hours and begins to rub his eyes. He immediately "sees" stars, checkerboards, and flashes of color. These visual sensations caused by Matt rubbing his eyes are called
a. visual pop-outs. b. phosphenes. c. visual spectrals. d. artificial vision.
Regarding a comparison of the talk-oriented therapies, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. Cognitive therapies tend to be action therapies less concerned with insight than with helping people change harmful thinking patterns. b. Freud claimed that his patients could expect through therapy to only change their "hysterical misery into common unhappiness.". c. In client-centered therapy, the therapist tends to take a position of authority, stating what the patient's dreams, thoughts, or memories "mean.". d. Better self-knowledge was the goal of traditional psychoanalysis.
We may reject the null hypothesis when the value of F:
a. 0 b. 1 c. >1 d. <1
Skinner's view on democracy is that:
a. democracy is a fine institution b. it is an institution that should be improved so that its citizens' happiness will be maximized c. it is a form of government in which the majority is at the mercy of the minority d. democracy is really despotism since the minority is at the mercy of the majority