Roy is a competitive snowboarder with a dream of being on the Olympic team someday. After a series of poor finishes and falls during competitions, he tells his parents that he was never very good, he will never make the Olympic team, and snowboarding is a stupid sport anyway. Inside he begins to think that he will never be happy doing anything but snowboarding, and that he must be a huge failure
His parents worry that he is becoming depressed. This is a ____.?
a. ?biological explanation of depression
b. ?cognitive theory of depression
c. ?social explanation of depression
d. ?learning theory of depression
ANSWER:
b
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What was the basis for Babbage’s calculating machine??
a. ?The spirit of mechanism b. Automata and clocks? c. ?The mechanical nature of human mental actions d. ?None of the above e. ?All of the above
According to the three stages model of memory, the explanation for the primacy effect in the serial position curve is that ____
a. ?the last items are still in short-term memory b. ?the middle items are still in sensory memory c. ?both the first and the last items have been transferred to long-term memory d. ?the first items have been transferred to long-term memory