The facts that you have encoded for this exam would be found in procedural memory.

Social skills training programs are interventions in which children are taught specific,discrete behaviors that can facilitate effective social interactions,like making eye contact and asking appropriate questions.Assessments of these interventions indicate that they have modest success in improving peer acceptance.Which of these is the best description of a major shortcoming of these intervention programs?

A) Socially unskilled children are already perceived in biased ways by peers,and that perception is not being addressed by the intervention.
B) Social skills are not the problem.Children who experience low peer acceptance usually already have adequate social skills.
C) These programs are introduced too late.Social skills training must be done much earlier than middle childhood to have any real effect.
D) Socially unskilled children are not capable of learning these basic skills,because their problems stem from a difficult temperament.

Which of the following assumptions underlies the trait approach to personality?

A) Each person belongs in one and only one personality category.
B) Personality characteristics can be represented along a continuum.
C) People in one personality category are distinctly different from people in other categories.
D) Personality can change as a function of the situation the person is in.

Family _____ refers to how a family cares for its members.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) remains concerned about a link between __________ and suicidal thinking and suicidal behaviors in children and adolescents

A) electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
B) Ritalin and other medications used to treat attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD)
C) Lithium
D) antidepressant medications

An element common to the theories of Maslow, Rogers, White, and Deci is:

A) an emphasis on classical and instrumental conditioning in determining behavior
B) the idea that all humans, in some way, strive to reach their potential
C) the importance of cognitive decision-making
D) the importance of internal conflicts that drive behavior