An athlete who is actually well-prepared nevertheless thinks just before a contest, “I can’t do this! I need to be perfect, and I know I’m going to fail!” The theorist who would emphasize the illogical thinking process of this athlete as a source of poor performance MOST likely would support which dimension of abnormality?
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Dr. Tim required half of a group of healthy volunteers to st…
Dr. Tim required half of a group of healthy volunteers to study a passage for an hour. The other half of the participants studied for 15 minutes. Dr. Tim then administered a memory test of details from the passage. What was the dependent variable?
Compared to projective tests, personality inventories genera…
Compared to projective tests, personality inventories generally have:
The movement that has tried to find the common strategies th…
The movement that has tried to find the common strategies that “good” therapists use is called:
When a young child yells and throws toys (“temper tantrum”),…
When a young child yells and throws toys (“temper tantrum”), the parents give the child a good deal of attention. As time goes on, the temper tantrums become more and more common. A behavioral psychologist would say that the temper tantrums result from:
“Thoughts, as well as overt actions, are acquired and modifi…
“Thoughts, as well as overt actions, are acquired and modified by various forms of conditioning.” The orientation of the author of this quote MOST likely would be:
If a mother seems excessively involved in her child’s life s…
If a mother seems excessively involved in her child’s life such that the two of them do not seem to be independent people, their relationship is said to be:
A test is constructed to identify people who will develop sc…
A test is constructed to identify people who will develop schizophrenia. Of the 100 people the test identifies, 93 show signs of schizophrenia within five years. The test may be said to have high:
A person who primarily prescribes medication but does not co…
A person who primarily prescribes medication but does not conduct psychotherapy is called a:
Which of the following correlation coefficients is of the hi…
Which of the following correlation coefficients is of the highest magnitude?