1. When six-year-old Sven's parents overhear him de- scribing his third birthday party, they look at each other in surprise. Sven appears to remember the burnt birthday cake his father was baking and his aunt had to run out and buy one from a bakery, even though Sven was not present when those even...
1 when six year old svens parents overhear him de scribing his third birthday party
they look at each other in surprise sven appears to remember the burnt birthday cake his father was baking a
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1. When six-year-old Sven's parents overhear him de-
C. Confabulation
scribing his third birthday party, they look at each
other in surprise. Sven appears to remember the
burnt birthday cake his father was baking and his
aunt had to run out and buy one from a bakery, even
though Sven was not present when those events
occurred. Sven's memory illustrates the concept of:
2. In addressing the debate about children's
memories of sexual abuse, it has become clear C. Preschoolers
that: are more
vulnera- ble to
suggestive
questions than
are school-aged
chil- dren
3. Which of the following would not require recall? B. True-false ex-
ams.
4. Information in short-term memory is retained for B. 30 seconds
about if it is not rehearsed, and // 1-2 seconds
information in sensory memory is retained for
about .
B. 5 to 9
5. Short term memory typically holds units
(chunks) of information.
B. Episodic //
6. Memories of personally experienced events and the Pro-
contexts in which they occurred are known as , cedural
and memories for the performance of actions or
skills are called .
7. Ramona has lost her interest in gardening, which attack. He
brought her joy in the past. She's lost her appetite trembles
and life seems hopeless. Which disorder would and shakes
Ramona most likely have? and his
heart
8. Johnny has recurring periods of intense fear palpitates.
during which he thinks that he is having a heart This kind of
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problem is called: C. Major
depres- sion
A. A panic attack
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9. Behavior or an emotional state that causes an indi- D. A mental
vidual great suffering, is self-destructive, seriously disor- der
impairs the person's ability to work or get along
with others, or makes a person unable to control the
im- pulse to endanger others is known as:
10. involves chronic, inflexible patterns of be- D. Personality
havior, thoughts, or feelings that cause great dis- orders
distress or an inability to get along with others.
11.Sean after being severely depressed for two weeks, B. Bipolar
developed excessive euphoria, went on a buying disorder
spree spending $4,000 on stuff he did not need. His
roommate says Sean does not sleep at night and
talks incessantly. Sean would most likely be
diagnosed with:
12.Anti-social personality disorder involves all of the
fol- lowing except:
B. Refusing to
be around
13.According to the socio-cognitive explanation of other peo- ple,
dis- sociative identity disorder, therapists have: like at parties
D. Rewarded
pa- tients with
atten- tion
and praise
for revealing
more and more
person- alities
14. is the thought to be the biological mechanism B. Long-term
po-
of long-term memory. experiencing:
15.Hector is studying for his chemistry final but notices 16.
that the Chinese symbols he learned last semester
in his Chinese language class keeps making him occurs
forget his chemistry symbols. Hector is when
instead of
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