Marie comes from a supportive, loving family and has a stable socio-economic background. She has developed depression due to a serotonin deficiency. Anne has distant parents, failing grades, and insufficient funds for basic necessities and also develops depression. These two cases demonstrate what principle of developmental psychopathology?

An athlete who is actually well-prepared nevertheless thinks just before a contest, “I can’t do this! I need to be perfect, and I know I’m going to fail!” The theorist who would emphasize the illogical thinking process of this athlete as a source of poor performance MOST likely would support which dimension of abnormality?

The movement that has tried to find the common strategies that “good” therapists use is called:

Dr. Tim required half of a group of healthy volunteers to study a passage for an hour. The other half of the participants studied for 15 minutes. Dr. Tim then administered a memory test of details from the passage. What was the dependent variable?

Compared to projective tests, personality inventories generally have:

“Thoughts, as well as overt actions, are acquired and modified by various forms of conditioning.” The orientation of the author of this quote MOST likely would be:

If a mother seems excessively involved in her child’s life such that the two of them do not seem to be independent people, their relationship is said to be:

One major difference between psychiatrists and clinical psychologists is that psychiatrists:

Which of the following correlation coefficients is of the highest magnitude?

When a young child yells and throws toys (“temper tantrum”), the parents give the child a good deal of attention. As time goes on, the temper tantrums become more and more common. A behavioral psychologist would say that the temper tantrums result from: