Girls who mature_______and boys who mature________seem to experience more subjective distress and emotional difficulties with the transition to adolescence.

Related Mcqs:

1. Because she believes that boys are naughtier than girls, Mrs. Zumpano, a second-grade teacher, watches boys more closely than she watch girls for any signs of misbehavior. Mrs. Zumpano’s surveillance strategy best illustrates:

   A. the framing effect
   B. the availability heuristic
   C. confirmation bias
   D. functional fixedness

2. Phobias can be very debilitating and distressing phenomena. Which, if any, of the following statements are correct in relation to Watson and Rayner’s (1920) research into them?
   1:Watson and Rayner speculated that the complexity of emotional responsiveness in adults might be explained by the conditioning of children’s simple emotional reactions when they are exposed to new stimuli
   2:Watson and Rayner found evidence for emotional from a test trial in which the rat was accompanied by the noise
   3:The fear reaction in Albert could be produced by a loud noise
   4:None of the above

   A. 1 & 2
   B. 1 & 3
   C. 2 & 3
   D. 4

3. According to Schachter and Singer, emotional experience involves the interaction of:

   A. Cognitive social and effective factors
   B. Psychological and affective factors
   C. Cognitive social and psychological factors
   D. Cognitive and environmental factors

4. _____is generally used in the study of specific learning, personality, or behavior difficulties of a complex nature and utilizes various clinical procedures:

   A. Genetic method
   B. Clinical method
   C. Both (a) and (b)
   D. None of these

5. “Human beings respond to their subjective cognitions about their world rather than to the objective environment” is an argument for the effectiveness of ___________?

   A. Primal therapy
   B. Freudian therapy
   C. Cognitive therapy
   D. Rankian therapy

6. In most anxiety disorders, the person’s distress is:

   A. focused on a specific situation
   B. related to ordinary life stresses
   C. greatly out of proportion to the situation
   D. based on a physical cause

7. Mr. Noor mistakenly believed that a single intake interview in which he simply described his numerous symptoms to a therapist was a treatment for his distress. His immediate relief from many of his symptoms following this session best illustrates:

   A. transference
   B. counterconditioning
   C. unconditional positive regard
   D. the placebo effect

8. In the early treatment for assessing mental distress, physiognomy was use to study which of the following?

   A. Shape of skull
   B. Mental healing
   C. Shape of face
   D. Treating mental illness using magnets

9. Which THREE of the following are criteria for good psychological research?
   1. it should be public
   2. it should subjective
   3. it should be cumulative
   4. it should be parsimonious

   A. 1, 3 & 4
   B. 1, 2 & 3
   C. 2, 3 & 4
   D. 1, 2 & 4

10. The report is a result of subjective filtering by the researcher based on his bias or by using an advocate and an adversary approach, leaving the reader to make a:

    A. Base
    B. Point
    C. Decision
    D. Result