What criteria should be met by a potential marker for vulnerability to schizophrenia?
Answer:
A potential marker for vulnerability to schizophrenia should distinguish between persons who have schizophrenia and those who do not. The marker should be a stable characteristic over time. The proposed measure of vulnerability should identify more people among the biological relatives of schizophrenic patients than among people in the general population. The proposed measure of vulnerability should be able to predict the future development of schizophrenia among those who have not yet experienced psychotic episodes.
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Erdelyi's (1985) example involving pre-attentive estimates of anxiety implies the sort of ________ process that Freud assumed.
A. Defensiveness. B. non-emotional. C. Transference. D. conflict-avoidance.
Which is NOT true of practice?
a. People routinely believe that stunning talent and amazing accomplishment derive from inherited, genetic, or "interior" explanations. b. Dedicated, regular, long-term practice leads to high levels of skilled performance. c. Practice within a particular domain strengthens that knowledge, pushes problem-solving components closer to automaticity, and gives you a deeper understanding of the domain. d. It will yield special-purpose heuristics that combat mundane stereotyped knowledge through the development of stronger declarative memory production systems.