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65% of infants are securely attached by what age? - ✔✔ANSW✔✔25 months
What are the top three leading causes of death in persons ages 15 to 25? -
✔✔ANSW✔✔Accidents, homicides, and suicides
What are the two categories of domestic violence? - ✔✔ANSW✔✔High-severity:
includes being threatened or hurt with a weapon, burned, choked, hit, or kicked,
resulting in broken bones and head or internal injuries
Low-severity: includes being slapped, hit, or kicked with injury, but also could include
bruising, minor cuts, and sprains
What are the two layers of dream content? - ✔✔ANSW✔✔Manifest: what is recalled by
the dreamer
Latent: unconscious thoughts and wishes that threaten to awaken the dreamer
What are the two most common methods of contraceptives? - ✔✔ANSW✔✔Condoms
and birth control pills
What are the two types of genito-pelvic pain? - ✔✔ANSW✔✔Dyspareunia: recurrent or
persistant genital pain occurring before, during, or after intercourse
Vaginismus: constriction of the outer third of the vagina due to involuntary pelvic floor
muscle tightness or spasm (interferes with penile insertion)
What are the typical reactions in both rape and sexual abuse victims? -
✔✔ANSW✔✔Shame, humiliation, anxiety, confusion, and outrage
What are three positive outcomes of the Violence Against Women Act? -
✔✔ANSW✔✔Improved the criminal justice response to violence against women,
ensured that victims and their families have access to the services, and created positive
change (Table 26-1)
,What are two examples of anti androgens? - ✔✔ANSW✔✔cyproterone acetate and
medroxyprogesterone acetate (Depo-Provera)
What are unconscious mental operations by which latent dream content is transformed
into manifest dream? - ✔✔ANSW✔✔Dream work
What as suggested by Calvin Colarusso and Robert Nemiroff about adult development?
- ✔✔ANSW✔✔The developmental process in the adult is the same as in the child, as
the adult is always in the midst in an ongoing dynamic process
What behavioral patterns are most often found in a sex addict? -
✔✔ANSW✔✔Paraphilias
What biological changes occur during long-lasting plasticity? - ✔✔ANSW✔✔New
protein synthesis, physical growth of neural processes, and an increase in the number
of synaptic connections
What biological changes occur during short-lasting plasticity? - ✔✔ANSW✔✔Increase in
neurotransmitter release
A child believe that bad thoughts cause accidents. What is this called and in what stage
of Piaget development does it occur? - ✔✔ANSW✔✔Phenomenalistic causality;
Preoperational thought
A child does view death permanent until what age? - ✔✔ANSW✔✔10 years
A child recognizes that when a ball of clay is rolled into a sausage shape there is still
the same amount of clay. What ability is this child demonstrating and during what stage
of Piaget development does this occur? - ✔✔ANSW✔✔Conservation; Concrete
operations
A male is produced during fetal development only when? - ✔✔ANSW✔✔Androgen is
introduced (set off by the Y chromosome which is responsible for testicular
development)
A patient cannot remember faces, spatial layouts, and other nonverbal material, which
part of the brain is damaged? - ✔✔ANSW✔✔Medial temporal or diencephalic structures
in the right cerebral hemisphere
A patient cannot remember word lists and stories (verbal material), which part of the
brain is damaged? - ✔✔ANSW✔✔Medial temporal or diencephalic structures in the left
cerebral hemisphere
, A patient has impaired learning of spatial arrays, whether the layouts are examined by
vision or by touch, which part of the brain is damaged? - ✔✔ANSW✔✔Right medial
temporal lobe
A patient has impaired memory for spoken and written text, which part of the brain is
damaged? - ✔✔ANSW✔✔Left medial temporal lobe
A person who gets sick of drinking an alcoholic beverage and consequently learns to
hate the flavor is an example of what type of conditioning? - ✔✔ANSW✔✔Pavlovian
conditioning
A positive institution shares what core characteristics? - ✔✔ANSW✔✔Purpose, safety,
fairness, humanity, and dignity
Absence of a best friend during the middle years is an early indicator of what
psychological disorder? - ✔✔ANSW✔✔Schizophrenia
According to Piaget, what are the four major stages that lead to the capacity for adult
thought and and what age range does each occur? - ✔✔ANSW✔✔Sensorimotor (birth
to 2 years), preoperational thought (2 to 7 years), concrete operations (7 to 11 years),
and formal operations (11 through adolescence)
According to positive psychology, what is the most important contributor to a satisfied
life? - ✔✔ANSW✔✔Having good relationships with other people
According to the American Bar Association, AMA, and the National Conference of
Commissioner on uniform State Laws, when is someone considered dead? -
✔✔ANSW✔✔Irretrievable cessation of circulatory and respiratory functions or
irretrievable cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brainstem
Adolescence occurs during what time frame? - ✔✔ANSW✔✔Early: 12 to 14
Middle: 14 to 16
Late: 17 to 19
Alcoholic Korsakoff's syndrome causes amnesia due to destruction in what area of the
brain? - ✔✔ANSW✔✔Diencephalon
All horses are mammals, all mammals are warm blooded, therefore all horses are warm
blooded...this is what type of reasoning and during what stage of Piaget development
does it occur? - ✔✔ANSW✔✔Syllogistic reasoning; Concrete operations
Amnesia effects what kind of memory? - ✔✔ANSW✔✔Declarative memory
