Praising socially withdrawn children when they make eye contact with others and ignoring them during a temper tantrum best illustrates an application of

A) cognitive therapy.
B) psychodynamic therapy.
C) operant conditioning.
D) unconditional positive regard.

Research indicates that psychotherapy is ________.

A) highly and equally effective for both mild and severe disorders
B) more effective for mild disorders than for severe disorders
C) more effective for severe disorders than for mild disorders
D) not effective for either mild or severe disorders

Kanye is conducting a study considering the ways in which the category of "minority status" gets constituted through negotiated social interaction.He is most likely to be influenced by this sociological theorist:

A) Marx
B) Smith
C) Blumer
D) Parsons

Participants in an experiment heard a description of the military conflicts between the British and the Gurkas in India. Some were told the true outcome and others were told false outcomes. All participants overestimated their ability to have predicted the outcome that they believed to be true. This is known as

A) confabulation.
B) repression.
C) hindsight bias.
D) procedural memory.

"Do you agree that male teenage drivers are more dangerous than female teenage drivers?" is an example of a _____ question.

A) simplistic
B) double-barreled
C) loaded
D) yea-saying and nay-saying

According to Freud,repression is the

A) process of storing new information in the preconscious mind.
B) process of banishing from the conscious mind memories,thoughts,and feelings that produce anxiety.
C) lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage of development.
D) use of hypnosis to uncover unconscious,painful memories and replace them with more pleasant memories.