Daria has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and is being given an intelligence test. The examiner asks Daria what it means when one says, "Strike while the iron is hot." Daria replies, "You cannot iron clothes with a cold iron." Daria's response demonstrates ____

a. difficulty with abstraction c. delusional thinking
b. ideas of reference d. poverty of speech

A

Psychology

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Your friend wishes to stop his child from throwing temper tantrums and decides to use extinction. What would you tell him to expect?

a) Extinction will not stop tantrums. b) The child will immediately stop throwing tantrums. c) The tantrums will occur in a random pattern until fatigue sets in. d) The child will increase the tantrums immediately and then gradually stop them.

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The standard deviation is: a. the arithmetic average. b. the middle score in a distribution after the scores have been ordered from highest to lowest orlowest to highest

c. the square root of the average squared deviation from the mean. d. the difference between the lowest and highest score in a distribution.

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