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Elmer, the owner of an auto service station, suddenly began smashing the front fenders and hoods of two customers’ cars. When asked why, he excitedly explained that he was transforming the cars into “real racing machines.” When an employee tried to restrain him, he shouted that everybody was fired and quickly began breaking the car windows. Elmer is exhibiting symptoms of 

Interdependence is to ________ as independence is to ________. 

Jeremy consistently attributes his poor work performance to his own incompetence. This most clearly indicates that he experiences a low level of 

The first person to promote “moral treatment” for psychological disorders, instead of the brutal treatments used during his time, was 

Freud emphasized that effective treatment of psychological disorders involves the 

The belief that some distressing physical symptoms made no neurological sense contributed most directly to 

Free association is a method designed to 

To reduce a patient’s fear of certain medical procedures, a therapist repeatedly paired the sight of a hypodermic needle that triggered a learned fear response with the taste of chocolate that triggered an unlearned sense of pleasure. The therapist was most clearly using a technique involving 

Positive symptoms of schizophrenia are the ________ of inappropriate behaviors, and negative symptoms are the ________ of appropriate behaviors. 

Psychosurgery involves