Rather than helping a person to successfully cope, abnormal
behaviors make it more difficult for the person to meet the every day demands of life. Thus, this core feature of all abnormal behavior refers to the behavior being
a. culturally relative.
b. subjectively painful.
c. statistically deviant.
d. maladaptive.
ANSWER: d
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a. respondent; operant b. operant; respondent c. conditioned; counterconditioned d. counterconditioned; conditioned
Replacing dysfunctional statements with ones that can help adolescents better deal with stress is an example of
A) an emotion-focused coping. B) a cognitive approach to coping. C) a secondary control coping strategy. D) a primary control coping strategy.