Unconscious reactions for dealing with unpleasant emotions such as anxiety or guilt are referred to as
a. constructive coping.
b. rationalizations.
c. neurosis.
d. defense mechanisms.
D
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Why should we not expect a one-to-one relationship between psychological and physical measures of brain functioning?
a) They cannot measure brain functioning during normal daily activity. b) Little is known about the functioning of individual neurons. c) Psychological measures have low reliability and validity. d) People differ in how well they cope with brain dysfunctions.
CT scans and MRI scans both suggest that the brains of schizophrenics have shrunk, which may be due to the schizophrenic brain
a. becoming more densely-packed with aging. b. developing plaques and tangles. c. having abnormal brain chemicals that accumulate and cause neuronal death. d. being unable to continually create new neurons to replace old ones that have died.