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Pregunta 1 de 91

1

The study, assessment, and treatment of people with psychological difficulties is known as

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • developmental psychology.

  • comparative psychology.

  • social psychology.

  • clinical psychology.

Explicación

Pregunta 2 de 91

1

Chapman and Chapman had college students and professional clinicians study the relationship between
patients' test performances and diagnoses. They found that

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • if students or clinicians expected a particular association, they perceived it, regardless of whether the
    data was supportive.

  • students and clinicians only saw relationships that were supported by the data.

  • professional clinicians were more accurate than students in assessing relationships.

  • students and clinicians only recognized positive relationships if the actual correlations were greater
    than 0.75.

Explicación

Pregunta 3 de 91

1

Myers suggests that clinicians may continue to have confidence in uninformative or ambiguous tests
because of human susceptibility to

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • the inoculation effect.

  • learned helplessness.

  • the representativeness heuristic.

  • illusory correlations.

Explicación

Pregunta 4 de 91

1

Following the suicide of a friend or family member, feelings of guilt are often magnified by

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • illusory thinking.

  • the fundamental attribution error.

  • hindsight bias.

  • confirmation bias.

Explicación

Pregunta 5 de 91

1

When psychologists were surveyed regarding intuition versus the scientific method, _______ were
more likely to value intuition.

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • clinical psychologists

  • developmental psychologists

  • social psychologists

  • educational psychologists

Explicación

Pregunta 6 de 91

1

Rosenhan and his colleagues (1973) faked schizophrenic symptoms to infiltrate mental hospitals. Once
they had been admitted and no longer complained of any fake symptoms,

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • professional clinicians quickly distinguished them from the real patients and released them from the
    hospital.

  • the clinicians sought and found evidence in their histories and behavior to confirm their admitting
    diagnoses.

  • the pseudo-patients were ostracized by the hospital's real patients.

  • the pseudo-patients absorbed their "sick" roles and developed additional symptoms in the course of
    their treatment.

Explicación

Pregunta 7 de 91

1

In Rosenhan's study (1973), clinicians who dealt with pseudo-patients who had faked symptoms to get
into mental hospitals demonstrated the error of

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • self-serving bias.

  • hindsight bias.

  • self-handicapping.

  • overjustification.

Explicación

Pregunta 8 de 91

1

Luisa, a Freudian analyst, found that, without exception, her patients reported having dreams closely
related to their emotional problems. What may best explain why the dreams and problems of Luisa's
patients are so consistent with Freudian theory?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Freud's theory is the oldest and most comprehensive of all the theories of personality.

  • Freud's theory is more ambiguous than any other theory, and thus any problem fits into its framework.

  • The patients are perhaps induced by Luisa to give information that is consistent with her theoretical
    orientation.

  • Freudian psychotherapists are "true believers," and Luisa's report is an attempt to convert other
    therapists to her orientation.

Explicación

Pregunta 9 de 91

1

Snyder and Swann (1984) gave interviewers some hypotheses to test concerning individuals' traits, and
found that people often tested for a trait by

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • asking those being tested for a general self-evaluation.

  • looking for information that would contradict it.

  • looking for information that would confirm it.

  • asking very specific questions to disprove it.

Explicación

Pregunta 10 de 91

1

April is going out on a first date with Nikos, whom her best friend says is funny and fun-loving. On
the date, April asks Nikos, "What is the most fun-loving thing you've ever done?" What is the likely effect
of such questioning on Nikos?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • He will act more fun-loving on the date than if not asked such questions.

  • He will act more reserved and shy than if not asked such questions.

  • He will resent such questions and become annoyed.

  • He will try to explain that there are times when he is not fun-loving.

Explicación

Pregunta 11 de 91

1

Research indicates that when interviewers are instructed to test for a trait, they tend to ask questions
that show evidence of

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • the confirmation bias.

  • the illusion of control.

  • negative attributional styles.

  • illusory correlations.

Explicación

Pregunta 12 de 91

1

When Rosenham and his research associates (1973) reported to mental hospital admissions offices
that they were "hearing voices," most were

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • diagnosed with schizophrenia and hospitalized for two to three weeks.

  • not diagnosed with a mental illness, since they were in fact normal.

  • diagnosed with schizophrenia initially but never hospitalized.

  • diagnosed with schizophrenia initially, hospitalized, but then released after testing revealed that they
    were normal.

Explicación

Pregunta 13 de 91

1

Freudian therapists who expect to find evidence of early childhood traumas are likely to uncover such
experiences among

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • clients who are males.

  • clients who are real victims of childhood sex abuse.

  • clients who are healthy, successful adults.

  • all clients.

Explicación

Pregunta 14 de 91

1

When researchers pit statistical prediction—such as predicting graduate school success using a
formula that includes grades and aptitude scores—against interviewers' intuitive prediction,

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • statistical prediction is usually superior to expert intuition.

  • expert intuition is usually superior to statistical intuition.

  • statistical prediction and expert intuition do equally well.

  • both methods usually fare no better than chance.

Explicación

Pregunta 15 de 91

1

Myers suggests that we avoid the confirmation bias by

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • looking for illusory correlations.

  • carefully monitoring the information that is consistent with our ideas.

  • considering opposing ideas and then testing them.

  • discarding opposing ideas that have not been tested.

Explicación

Pregunta 16 de 91

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Myers points out that hindsight can

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • lead you to feel overconfident.

  • lead you to judge yourself too harshly for not having foreseen outcomes.

  • lead to both overconfidence and the tendency to judge yourself too harshly.

  • be very helpful in developing hypotheses about personality traits.

Explicación

Pregunta 17 de 91

1

Research suggests that the prediction of someone's future academic success is best when the
prediction is based on

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • statistics.

  • the judgments of trained admissions officers.

  • statistics plus the judgments of trained admissions officers.

  • letters of recommendation.

Explicación

Pregunta 18 de 91

1

According to the text, professional clinicians are NOT LIKELY to

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • be the victims of illusory correlation.

  • suffer from confirmation bias.

  • consider opposing ideas and test them.

  • overestimate their clinical intuition.

Explicación

Pregunta 19 de 91

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According to the text, an important implication of the research on illusory thinking is that

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • intuition has no legitimate place in the field of science.

  • the scientific method is the only legitimate way to answer significant human questions.

  • research psychologists must test their preconceptions before presenting them as truth.

  • conventional wisdom is almost always wrong.

Explicación

Pregunta 20 de 91

1

Myers suggests that the pervasiveness of illusory thinking points to the need for a _______ study of
thought and behavior.

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • psychohistorical

  • literary

  • scientific

  • humanistic

Explicación

Pregunta 21 de 91

1

Alloy and Abramson (1979) had depressed and nondepressed students observe whether pressing a
button was linked with a light blinking and found that depressed students

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • were too self-focused to complete the task.

  • were quite accurate at assessing their control.

  • exaggerated the extent of their control of the light.

  • underestimated the extent of their control of the light.

Explicación

Pregunta 22 de 91

1

The work of Alloy and Abramson (1979) examined how depressed individuals view the extent of their
personal control over events. Their results provided evidence of the phenomenon known as

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • optimistic well-being.

  • pessimistic exaggeration.

  • depressive realism.

  • learned helplessness.

Explicación

Pregunta 23 de 91

1

The tendency of mildly depressed people to make accurate rather than self-serving judgments is
referred to as

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • the accurate explanatory style.

  • the Barnum effect.

  • realistic pessimism.

  • depressive realism.

Explicación

Pregunta 24 de 91

1

Yvonne, a college senior, is mildly depressed. Asked to describe herself, she notes both her positive
and negative qualities. She recalls both past successes and failures and takes personal responsibility for
both. Yvonne clearly illustrates the _______ effect.

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • rose-colored-glasses

  • sadder-but-wiser

  • head-in-the-clouds

  • feet-on-the-ground

Explicación

Pregunta 25 de 91

1

Vanessa is a mildly depressed college student. Considering the research findings presented in the text
on depression, she probably

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • suffers from the better-than-average phenomenon.

  • assumes that her behavior is well-accepted by others.

  • demonstrates the sadder-but-wiser effect.

  • is below average in intelligence.

Explicación

Pregunta 26 de 91

1

Compared to depressed people, non-depressed people

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • exaggerate their control of events around them.

  • have realistic perceptions of the good and bad things that the future holds.

  • readily accept responsibility for both successes and failures.

  • describe themselves with a fairly even mix of positive and negative qualities.

Explicación

Pregunta 27 de 91

1

"Explanatory style" refers to

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • the complexity of one's persuasive arguments.

  • one's habitual way of explaining life events.

  • the pitch and speed with which one communicates.

  • whether one relies primarily on reason or emotion when debating an issue.

Explicación

Pregunta 28 de 91

1

Explaining life events in terms of factors that are stable, global, and internal is a _______ explanatory
style.

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • negative

  • positive

  • realistic

  • repressive

Explicación

Pregunta 29 de 91

1

Who is more likely to exhibit a negative explanatory style?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • a teenager

  • a non-depressed person

  • an elderly person

  • a depressed person

Explicación

Pregunta 30 de 91

1

Maxwell, a college junior, suffers from chronic depression. After learning that he has performed
poorly on his chemistry test, he is most likely to say,

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • "The test was not a fair assessment of what I actually know."

  • "My chemistry professor does not grade his tests fairly."

  • "I'm incompetent and probably always will be."

  • "I am sure most people did poorly on the test."

Explicación

Pregunta 31 de 91

1

Which of the following attributions regarding a failure or a setback illustrates the global quality of a
depressed person's explanatory style?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • "It's my fault."

  • "It's going to last forever."

  • "It's going to affect everything I do."

  • "It's the same with everybody."

Explicación

Pregunta 32 de 91

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Which of the following best illustrates an internal attribution for a failure or setback?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • "I'll never succeed."

  • "This ruins everything."

  • "It's my fault."

  • "The whole world is against me."

Explicación

Pregunta 33 de 91

1

Which of the following does NOT belong?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • negative explanatory style

  • external attribution

  • global attribution

  • stable attribution

Explicación

Pregunta 34 de 91

1

Which of the following attributions regarding a failure or setback illustrates the stable quality of a
depressed person's explanatory style?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • "It's all my fault."

  • "It's going to last forever."

  • "The whole world is against me."

  • "It's going to affect everything I do."

Explicación

Pregunta 35 de 91

1

Compared to nondepressed people, depressed people are more likely to attribute their failures and
setbacks to causes that are

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • unstable.

  • specific.

  • internal.

  • situational.

Explicación

Pregunta 36 de 91

1

Strack and Coyne (1983) found that depressed people were realistic in thinking that other people

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • possessed more accurate self-concepts than they did.

  • did not appreciate their behavior.

  • would welcome their friendship and trust.

  • were less influenced by fear of social disapproval than they were.

Explicación

Pregunta 37 de 91

1

College students who have depressed roommates tend to become

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • somewhat depressed themselves.

  • more accepting of people suffering from psychological disorders.

  • more optimistic about their own lives.

  • more studious and committed to achieving academic success.

Explicación

Pregunta 38 de 91

1

Your roommate Joel is depressed. As a result, you will tend to become

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • somewhat depressed yourself.

  • more accepting of people suffering from psychological disorders.

  • more optimistic about your own life.

  • more studious and committed to achieving academic success.

Explicación

Pregunta 39 de 91

1

Giesler and her colleagues (1996) found that when given a choice whether to read a favorable or
unfavorable assessment of their personality, depressed and high-self-esteem people made which choice?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • High-self-esteem individuals were more likely to choose the unfavorable assessment.

  • Depressed individuals were more likely to choose the unfavorable assessment.

  • Depressed individuals were more likely to choose the favorable assessment.

  • Both groups were about 50/50 in choosing the favorable or unfavorable assessment.

Explicación

Pregunta 40 de 91

1

The vicious cycle of depression is usually triggered by negative experiences that lead directly to

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • self-focused rumination and self-blame.

  • depressed moods.

  • further negative experiences.

  • blaming others for the negative experiences.

Explicación

Pregunta 41 de 91

1

According to Lewinsohn and her colleagues (1985), which of the following does NOT belong in the
vicious cycle of depression?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • self-focus

  • self-blame

  • depressed mood

  • defensive pessimism

Explicación

Pregunta 42 de 91

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Which of the following explains the relationship between depression and negative thinking?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • depressed moods cause negative thinking

  • negative thinking causes depressed moods

  • depression and negative thinking are unrelated in laboratory experiments

  • depressed moods can cause negative thinking and negative thinking can cause depressed moods.

Explicación

Pregunta 43 de 91

1

According to Seligman (2002), near-epidemic levels of depression in America today, ironically, can
be blamed in part on the promotion of attitudes that say,

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • "Everybody needs somebody sometime."

  • "You can make it on your own."

  • "You're nobody if nobody loves you."

  • "Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die."

Explicación

Pregunta 44 de 91

1

According to Seligman's (2002) analysis of the attitudes that promote near-epidemic levels of
depression in America, most of us feel that, if we do not "make it" in today's world, we can blame

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • our parents.

  • the government.

  • the alienation of the modern world.

  • only ourselves.

Explicación

Pregunta 45 de 91

1

In comparison to those in Western cultures, depressed people in Japan are more likely to report
feeling

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • guilt and self-blame over personal failure.

  • shame over letting down their family or co-workers.

  • sad about social problems such as poverty and discrimination.

  • hopeless and helpless.

Explicación

Pregunta 46 de 91

1

Loneliness is best described as a state created by the awareness that you

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • are alone most of the time.

  • have lost a significant relationship.

  • have less numerous or meaningful social relationships than you desire.

  • are not really respected even though you have many acquaintances.

Explicación

Pregunta 47 de 91

1

Larsen and her colleagues (1982) found that when beeped by an electronic pager at various times
during a one week period and asked to record what they were doing and how they felt, _______ were
most likely to report feeling lonely when alone.

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • adolescents

  • adults

  • women

  • men

Explicación

Pregunta 48 de 91

1

Chronically lonely people seem to have the same _______ as chronically depressed people.

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • unrealistic vision of the future

  • need to achieve perfection

  • illusion of control

  • negative explanatory style

Explicación

Pregunta 49 de 91

1

Chronically lonely people tend to blame _______ for their poor social relationships.

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • their parents and early childhood experiences

  • the uncaring attitudes of those presently around them

  • themselves

  • cultural patterns

Explicación

Pregunta 50 de 91

1

Which of the following statements about lonely people is FALSE?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • They perceive others in positive ways.

  • They tend to be low in self-esteem.

  • When talking with strangers, they spend more time talking about themselves and take less interest in
    the other person.

  • They self-disclose quickly.

Explicación

Pregunta 51 de 91

1

According to the self-presentation theory, we will feel social anxiety when we are

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • motivated to impress others but doubt our ability to do so.

  • motivated and able to impress others, but they ignore us.

  • in any circumstance in which we can be observed.

  • depressed.

Explicación

Pregunta 52 de 91

1

Which of the following theories most clearly predicts that we will feel anxious when we are motivated
to impress others but doubt our ability to do so?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • social learning theory

  • self-presentation theory

  • self-perception theory

  • cognitive dissonance theory

Explicación

Pregunta 53 de 91

1

According to the text, shyness is a form of _______ characterized by self-consciousness and worrying
about what others think.

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • loneliness

  • social anxiety

  • depression

  • social incompetence

Explicación

Pregunta 54 de 91

1

Shy people tend to

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • make a good first impression.

  • depersonalize social situations.

  • become less well-liked over time.

  • be self-conscious.

Explicación

Pregunta 55 de 91

1

According to the text, labeling oneself as shy, depressed, or under the influence of alcohol can serve
a(n) _______ function.

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • anger-reducing

  • self-handicapping

  • concurrence-seeking

  • group-identification

Explicación

Pregunta 56 de 91

1

Brodt and Zimbardo (1981) found that shy women who were bombarded with loud noise and told that
it would leave them _______ were subsequently _______ when interacting with a handsome male.

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • with a pounding heart; no longer so shy

  • unaffected; no longer so shy

  • with a pounding heart; even more shy

  • unaffected; unaffected

Explicación

Pregunta 57 de 91

1

Brodt and Zimbardo (1981) found that shy women were no longer shy when they

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • were provided an alternative explanation for their social anxiety.

  • were provided alcohol before interacting with others.

  • discovered that most people feel shy.

  • were taught to blame their failures on circumstances beyond their control.

Explicación

Pregunta 58 de 91

1

Which of the following is an interdisciplinary field that integrates and applies behavioral and medical
knowledge about health and disease?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • health psychology

  • behavioral medicine

  • applied psychology

  • clinical psychology

Explicación

Pregunta 59 de 91

1

Psychology's contribution to the interdisciplinary field of behavioral medicine is

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • clinical psychology.

  • psychiatry.

  • behavioral analysis.

  • health psychology.

Explicación

Pregunta 60 de 91

1

Dr. Jones is a psychologist who specializes in the causes and control of stress. Dr. Jones is most likely
a(n) _________ psychologist.

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • consumer

  • educational

  • forensic

  • health

Explicación

Pregunta 61 de 91

1

According to the text as well as research evidence, premenstrual syndrome (PMS)

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • occurs in 6 out of 10 women.

  • leads to premenstrual dysphoric disorder in 3 out of 10 women.

  • has many characteristics of a socially constructed disorder.

  • is a myth perpetuated by men.

Explicación

Pregunta 62 de 91

1

Which of the following statements is FALSE?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • People more often seek treatment if they believe their symptoms have a physical rather than a
    psychological cause.

  • Women are more often sick.

  • Women are more likely than men to visit a physician.

  • Men use fewer prescription and nonprescription drugs.

Explicación

Pregunta 63 de 91

1

People are more likely to use sunscreen or get an HIV test when the message is

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • framed attractively in terms of the potential gain in doing so.

  • framed negatively.

  • highly arousing.

  • framed in terms of shared goals.

Explicación

Pregunta 64 de 91

1

Experiments that subject animals to mild but uncontrollable electric shocks have shown that such
experiences

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • directly cause diseases like cancer.

  • lower the body's resistance to disease.

  • strengthen the animals' capacity to deal with future stressors.

  • lead to the animals becoming more aggressive in interacting with members of their own species.

Explicación

Pregunta 65 de 91

1

A growing body of evidence reveals that people who undergo highly stressful experiences become

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • more resistant to low-level illnesses like colds and flu.

  • more vulnerable to disease.

  • less self-disclosing and more socially isolated.

  • stronger and more socially skilled than less stressed people.

Explicación

Pregunta 66 de 91

1

Research has reported that newlywed couples who become angry while discussing problems

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • experience catharsis and have better long-term relationships with their spouses.

  • are subsequently more susceptible to problems of depression and loneliness.

  • suffer more immune system suppression the next day.

  • are more prone to develop colon cancer in the subsequent six months.

Explicación

Pregunta 67 de 91

1

A large Swedish study has found that, compared with unstressed workers, those with a history of
workplace stress

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • are better prepared to deal with stress in their family lives.

  • tend to have a more pessimistic explanatory style.

  • are at much greater risk of developing colon cancer.

  • develop stronger immune defenses.

Explicación

Pregunta 68 de 91

1

Maggie wants advice on how to cope with the stress of a new job. She would be best advised to
approach her new job with a sense of

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • passive resignation.

  • ambition and competitiveness.

  • urgency and time-consciousness.

  • optimism.

Explicación

Pregunta 69 de 91

1

Which of the following is NOT an example of one of the components of a pessimistic explanatory
style?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • "This is all my fault."

  • "I've learned my lesson."

  • "This is going to ruin everything."

  • "Things are going to be terrible from now on."

Explicación

Pregunta 70 de 91

1

Peterson and Seligman (1987) analyzed the press quotes of baseball Hall of Famers and found that
those who routinely offered pessimistic explanations for bad events, like losing big games, were more
likely to

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • earn lower salaries.

  • experience divorce.

  • play aggressively.

  • die at younger ages.

Explicación

Pregunta 71 de 91

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Which of the following is an example of an optimistic explanatory style?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • "My fate is out of my hands."

  • "Human life is fragile."

  • "I usually expect the best."

  • "I rarely count on good things happening to me."

Explicación

Pregunta 72 de 91

1

Research investigating the nature of the connection between explanatory style and health has shown
that people who routinely use the pessimistic style

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • are more likely to experience illness.

  • boost the morale of others via a contrast effect.

  • also tend to be impulsive and resistant to influence.

  • complain more but do not get sick more frequently than optimists.

Explicación

Pregunta 73 de 91

1

According to the text, which of the following is a social-psychological principle that can be applied to
the treatment of psychological difficulties?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • attitudes-follow-behavior

  • we are cognitive misers

  • acceptance breeds compliance

  • behavior-follows-attitudes

Explicación

Pregunta 74 de 91

1

Which of the following is NOT a therapy that utilizes the "attitudes-follow-behavior" principle?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • assertiveness training

  • rational-emotive therapy

  • self-help groups

  • psychoanalysis

Explicación

Pregunta 75 de 91

1

Both assertiveness training and rational-emotive therapy are cited in the text as examples of
psychotherapeutic techniques that

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • utilize social support to change behavior.

  • utilize the attitudes-follow-behavior principle.

  • encourage changes in explanatory style.

  • use counter-conditioning strategies.

Explicación

Pregunta 76 de 91

1

Mendonca and Brehm (1983) found that overweight children were more likely to lose weight and
keep it off after an eight-week program if they

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • felt responsible for choosing their weight-loss program.

  • were regularly monitored and penalized for breaking rules.

  • were praised and rewarded for even minor weight loss.

  • had been assigned to their "least preferred" treatment program.

Explicación

Pregunta 77 de 91

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Which statement is TRUE?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • A bad marriage is often less depressing to a woman than to a man.

  • Single women are happier than married women.

  • Marital happiness predicts overall happiness more than finances

  • Finances predict overall happiness more than marital happiness.

Explicación

Pregunta 78 de 91

1

Having shy or anxious people observe, then rehearse, then try out more assertive behaviors in real
situations is called

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • foot-in-the-door training.

  • rational-emotive therapy.

  • social skills training.

  • explanatory style therapy.

Explicación

Pregunta 79 de 91

1

A study by Haemmerlie and Montgomery (1986) enticed shy college men to participate in laboratory
exercises that would enhance their socially competence. The men

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • were taught specific communication skills.

  • took a short course on positive thinking.

  • delivered self-laudatory speeches to strangers.

  • had several successful conversations with women.

Explicación

Pregunta 80 de 91

1

Research by Haemmerlie and Montgomery (1986) supported the notion that social skills training can
lead shy men to

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • become dependent on their therapist.

  • reduce their social anxiety.

  • concentrate on their social incompetence.

  • become more shy 6 months after treatment.

Explicación

Pregunta 81 de 91

1

Haemmerlie and Montgomery (1986) concluded that the success of their social skills training with shy
men may have occurred because their program

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • employed skilled counselors who took responsibility for inspiring the men to feel confident and
    competent.

  • included no counseling, so the participants made internal attributions for their success.

  • protected the men from having to participate in actual conversations until they had first been
    extensively trained.

  • paved the way for conversational success by providing many external reasons for initiating
    conversation.

Explicación

Pregunta 82 de 91

1

Maria's therapist instructed her to monitor her attributions for successes and failures. Maria is
probably participating in

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • assertiveness training.

  • explanatory style therapy.

  • stress inoculations.

  • group therapy.

Explicación

Pregunta 83 de 91

1

Improvements achieved through changing thought or behavior patterns are most likely to endure if
people

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • redesign their behavioral contexts

  • are required to report back to their therapist on a regular basis.

  • attribute such changes to factors under their own control.

  • recognize that success depends on a power beyond themselves.

Explicación

Pregunta 84 de 91

1

As a result of participating in a program to help her quit smoking, Anne has not had a cigarette for
three weeks. She is least likely to return to smoking if she attributes her success in quitting the habit to

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • her own motivation.

  • the therapist who helped her quit.

  • the support of her friends.

  • the unique nature of the therapeutic program.

Explicación

Pregunta 85 de 91

1

John was recently attacked and mugged on a subway. He is less likely to experience long term stress
from the trauma if he

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • forgets about it.

  • talks about it with a friend.

  • sees a doctor immediately.

  • blocks it from his thoughts.

Explicación

Pregunta 86 de 91

1

According to research conducted by Cacioppo and her colleagues (2002), the relationship between
loneliness and health risks is

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • positive.

  • negative.

  • neutral.

  • curvilinear.

Explicación

Pregunta 87 de 91

1

A common conclusion reached by several studies involving thousands of people is that

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • close relationships predict health.

  • close relationships promote stress and some forms of illness.

  • family relationships are unrelated to health.

  • physical health is not linked to social support.

Explicación

Pregunta 88 de 91

1

The negative correlation between poverty and health is likely caused by all of the following factors
EXCEPT

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • reduced material possessions.

  • increased stress.

  • reduced health care.

  • unhealthy lifestyle.

Explicación

Pregunta 89 de 91

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Women who had been sexually abused reported more health problems especially if they had

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • not seen a therapist.

  • kept their abuse secret.

  • not confronted their abuser

  • confronted their abuser.

Explicación

Pregunta 90 de 91

1

Which of the following is the best predictor of overall happiness?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • a satisfying job

  • satisfaction with finances

  • satisfaction with one's community

  • satisfaction with marriage

Explicación

Pregunta 91 de 91

1

According to the text, marriage enhances happiness for which of the following reasons?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • It provides regular sex to both partners.

  • It provides financial security.

  • It provides multiple roles (e.g., spouse, parent) that can contribute to self-esteem.

  • It provides companionship.

Explicación