Jeremy's parents die in an accident in 1999 when he was 12. During his stay at his first foster home, Jeremy is caught shoplifting twice in the next six months and let go with a warning. Two years later he was placed in a youth detention center for assault and robbery on a grocery store. In the context of the ecological perspective, Jeremy's current situation was most likely due to the influence
of his _____.
A) mesosystem
B) exosystem
C) chronosystem
D) macrosystem
C
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Therapists who emphasize the application of learning principles in treatment use the ____ approach to psychotherapy
a. behavior b. biomedical c. insight d. emotion
Background conditioning occurs when medium- or high-intensity electric shock is presented but not preceded by an explicit CS. The authors attribute the failure of low-intensity electric shock to produce background conditioning to ________ and the near-absence of background conditioning when a CS precedes electric shock to ________.
a. habituation; overshadowing b. blocking; sensory preconditioning c. overexpectation; sensitization d. the S-S, S-R model of basic acquisition; the S-S, S-S model of basic acquisition
Which situation best illustrates Beck's concept of overgeneralization in depressives? a. When it rains on the day of the picnic, the host feels he should have scheduled it for another day
b. Despite feeling great anger at his mother, a boy yells at himself. c. When a girl is complimented on her hair, she assumes that the person who complimented her was just showing pity for her. d. A man burns the toast one morning at breakfast and concludes that he is a worthless father and husband.
Which of the following factors on the IPI did NOT yield significant sex differences?
A. Factor I: Rigid Type, Undue Suspiciousness, Antisocial Attitudes B. Factor II: Substance Abuse, Hyperactivity, Alcohol, Depression C. Factor III: Phobic Personality, Lack of Assertiveness, Depression, Loner Type D. All of the above