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Question number: 253
» Treatment of Psychology Disorders » Modes of Therapy » Behavior
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A parent who copes with quarreling among young children by placing them in separate rooms is using
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| Choice (4) | Response | |
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| a. | time out. |
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| b. | reinforcement. |
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| c. | shaping. |
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| d. | punishment. |
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Question number: 254
» Memory, Cognition, Thinking & Language » Language » Structure
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The two most basic units of speech are
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| Choice (4) | Response | |
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| a. | words and rules of grammar. |
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| b. | semantics. |
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| c. | morphemes and phonemes. |
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| d. | ideas and concepts. |
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Question number: 255
» Treatment of Psychology Disorders » Biomedical Therapies » Psychosurgery
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Trepanning, one of the more primitive practices involving boring a hole into the skull, was used to
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| Choice (4) | Response | |
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| a. | release good spirits |
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| b. | coerce and control disruptive patients. |
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| c. | shock patients into a remission of symptoms. |
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| d. | release “evil spirits. ” |
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Question number: 256
» Memory, Cognition, Thinking & Language » Language » Research on Animal Thinking & Communication
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Which of the following is TRUE about animal communication?
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| a. | While psychologists don’t doubt that animals communicate, there is disagreement as to whether or not animals can actually be taught a language. |
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| b. | Animal communication can truly be called a language because it consists of symbols, grammar, and, most importantly, it is productive. |
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| c. | Psychologists have a doubt that animals can ever communicate. |
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| d. | Although animal communication is limited, they can learn to use human language with ease and eventually attain the communication skills of the average high school sophomore. |
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Question number: 257
» Personality » Personality Theories & Approaches » Psychoanalytic Perspective
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In the Freudian view of personality, which system is totally unconscious and dominated by biological instincts?
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| Choice (4) | Response | |
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| a. | conscious |
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| b. | ego |
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| c. | superego |
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| d. | id |
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