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Who uses phototherapy?

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Individuals who suffer from SAD

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Who should treat an individual seeking counseling for minor coping skills?

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counseling psychologist

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Jeremy has an eating disorder and is seeing a warm and empathetic psychotherapist. They are…

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most likely using the client-centered approach.

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What makes borderline personality disorder (BPD) different from bipolar disorder (BD)?

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BPD is treatable and BD is not.

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Which of the following are key characteristics of psychotherapy?

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Active listening and cognitive restructuring.

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Extreme modern cases of psychological disorders are treated by everything except:

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labotomy

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If a family is going to therapy together, what is that called?

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Family therapy

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Jen is working on social skills with a therapist in a cost effective environment using ______ .

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group therapy

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Which of the following is the best description of psychotherapy?

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A humanistic approach treating disorders without medication.

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The sequence of prenatal development is:

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zygote, embryo, fetus

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Which of the following is a key characteristic of borderline personality disorder (BPD)?

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It is primarily associated with a history of trauma.

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Research conducted in regards to developmental psychology would not pertain…

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visual information processing

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Piaget believed that infants construct ______, which are theories about the way the worldworks.

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schemas

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During the sensorimotor stage,

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infants experience the world through movement.
experience the world through sense and act intentionally.
develop schemas.

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Sarah has is 13 years old and has started menstruation. Sarah is most likely experiencing

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developing primary sex characteristics.

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Adolescents pace the greatest emphasis on relationships with

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peers

17
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Older adults do show decline in

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working memory

18
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Sexual maturity of the human body begins in the adolescence stage of development due to

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puberty

19
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Data suggest that for most people, the last decades of life are

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extremely satisfying

20
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The tendency to do what authorities tell us to do is known as

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obediance

21
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Making a disposition attribution when another person’s behavior was caused by the situation is

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correspondence bias

22
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Positive or negative behavior towards a person based on their group membership is known as

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discrimination

23
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Which of the following reflect disorganized behaviors associated with schizophrenia?

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Talking to themselves in public.
Collecting trash from the street to take home.
Wearing multiple layers of clothing when it is 100 degrees.

24
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What is lithium used to treat?

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bipolar; it reduces positive feelings

25
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The biopsychosocial approach uses socioeconomic status (SES) because…

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Mental disorders are more prevalent in lower SES individuals

It determines access to resources like hospitals/education

26
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s chest pain that lasts for hours a symptom of a panic attack?

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no

27
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Jessie explains to her sister that she is homosexual. Jessie is discussing her

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sexual orientation

28
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Sally thinks that all men are unemotional rarely expressing themselves. Sally is…

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stereotyping

29
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What is the process by which people come to understand others?

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social cognition

30
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Olaf shakes during his church service in order to feel the holy spirit. He…

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might be showing normal behaviors for his culture

31
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What does etiology describe?

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The cause of a disease

32
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What does it mean to have an external locus of control?

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Everything that happens is not my fault

33
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Which of the following are part of the five-factor theory of personality?

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extraversion, agreeableness, & openness

34
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What is the main approach to understanding personality

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biological and psychodynamics
social cognitive
humanistic and existential

35
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People with high self-esteem do not tend to

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out perform individuals with low self esteem

36
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When people take credit for their successes but downplay responsibly for their failures, they..

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exhibit the self -serving bias

37
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_____ see self-actualization and development of human potential as personality characteristics.

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Humanists

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