Which of the following is an example of proactive interference?
a. After staying in eight motel rooms in the last month, you cannot remember your room number in your current motel.
b. After memorizing eight poems in the last month, you cannot remember the first one you learned
c. After a severe head concussion, you have difficulty studying and remembering new information.
d. When you try to tell a story, you leave out odd details and fill in the gaps with reasonable expectations of what should have happened.
a
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Which of the following statements is true?
a. Tend-and-befriend reactions are more likely when the threat is imminent. b. Fight-or-flight is an individual response to threat, not a group response. c. Fight-or-flight is an interpersonal response, rather than a physiological one. d. A flight reaction to threat, as displayed by a group, involves an organized escape from danger.
Who would be MOST likely to worry about driving home from work while it is snowing because he recalls "the last time I drove home in the snow, I skidded and almost had an accident?"
a. Scott, who has a somatoform disorder b. Sean, who has a schizophrenic disorder c. David, who has a dissociative disorder d. Alan, who has an anxiety disorder
Which individual developed tests to evaluate persons with emotional impairments?
a. Galton b. Seguin c. Kraepelin d. Weber
If a person taking the MMPI-2 displays a pattern of responses that indicates the presence of obsessive worries, irrational fears, and compulsive actions, the person would have a high score on which clinical subscale?
a. hypochondriasis b. schizophrenia c. psychasthenia d. hysteria