The best predictor of treatment outcomes among adult substance abusers - correct answer Severity of substance abuse problems
Dementia due to head
... [Show More] trauma - correct answer As described in DSM-IV, Dementia due to Head Trauma is usually non-progressive when it is the result of a single head trauma. If it is progressive, this usually indicates a superimposed condition (e.g., hydrocephalus).
Positive and negative life events are likely to have which of following types of effect on a person's sense of satisfaction and well-being? - correct answer Research suggests that positive and negative life events can create great joy or distress but don't really affect a person's long-term sense of satisfaction and well-being. Only recent life-events seem to influence a person's well-being, and this effect drops off in about three months. For example, lottery winners have not been found to be significantly happier than non-winners.
According to Lenore Walker, which of the following best describes the dynamic that keeps battered women "hooked" into their relationship with the batterer? - correct answer Lenore Walker describes a cycle of violence that involves three stags: tension building, acute battering incident, and loving contrition. According to Walker, most of the benefits of the relationship occur in the third stage, when the batterer offers apologies, assurances that the attacks will never happen again, and declarations of love. The relationship tends to remain stable when the balance between the costs of the abuse and the benefits of the relationship are fairly similar. As violence escalates, the relationship becomes more unstable, and the man escalates his charming behavior in an attempt to restore stability.
The purpose of rotation in factor analysis is to facilitate interpretation of the factors. Rotation - correct answer In factor analysis, rotating the factors changes the factor loadings for the variables and eigenvalue for each factor although the total of the eigenvalues remains the same.
In Seligman's theory of learned optimism, a student with an optimistic attribution style who fails an exam in a class which he usually does well in is most likely to say: - correct answer In Seligman's theory of learned optimism, attributions of optimistic people are believed to be the opposite of attributions of depressed people. Since depressed people make internal, stable, and global attributions to negative events, optimistic people would tend to make external, unstable, and specific attributions in response to negative events.
Choice D: the test was hard this time
Doctrine of Comparable Worth - correct answer states that workers (in particular, men and women) should get equal pay for performing jobs that have equivalent worth. A job evaluation is a method of determining the worth or value of jobs in an organization. Thus, it is the best answer to this question, because it would be a way of comparing the value of different jobs. Note that many critics believe that current methods of job evaluation contain inherent gender biases. Statistics clearly show that women earn less than men, and some believe that one reason for this is that job evaluation methods undervalue the work that women perform.
By the time an individual with what disorder reaches middle age, particularly the fourth decade of life, the symptoms often become less evident or remit to no longer meeting all the diagnostic criteria? - correct answer The symptoms of Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD), particularly criminal behaviors, often become less evident as an individual grows older (DSM-TR-IV, p. 704). APD has a chronic course and while some symptoms like criminal behaviors may decrease, other symptoms such as difficulties with interpersonal relationships may persist.
Group Polarization refers to the tendency of groups to make decisions that are: - correct answer more risky or more conservative than those that might be made by individual members
Soloman four-group design - correct answer a true experimental design used to evaluate the effects of pretesting, since some groups are pretested and others are not.
A MANOVA is used to statistically analyze data when: - correct answer to analyze the effects of one or more independent variables on two or more dependent variables that are each measured on an interval or ratio scale
Factorial ANOVA - correct answer is used to analyze data when a factorial design, which includes two or more independent variables, is used and the dependent variable is measured on an interval or ratio scale. [Show Less]