Several of your classmates are volunteering at a nursing
home for extra credit, and they tell you how much fun they are having helping with the "parties" and the weekly activities for the residents. Although you had planned to do the article assignment for extra credit, you change your mind and decide to volunteer at the nursing home. Your new attitude was formed because of
a. direct contact.
b. an interaction with others.
c. chance conditioning.
d. group membership.
ANSWER: b
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Ted dreams and daydreams about being humiliated during sexual encounters. He finds the fantasies to be quite arousing. If Ted experiences subjective distress or interpersonal difficulty as a result of these daydreams, what diagnosis would be made in his case?
a. Ted would qualify for the diagnosis of fetishism. b. Ted would not meet the criteria of masochism because he enjoys the fantasies. c. Ted would not meet the criteria of masochism because he does not act on his fantasies. d. Ted would qualify for the diagnosis of sexual masochism.
One thing that animals have not demonstrated the ability to do with language that humans can is use language to describe itself. This use is called _____
a) reflexiveness. b) specialization. c) prevarication. d) duality of patterning sounds, which is used to produce an infinite number of unique utterances.