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Questions
1. The fact that advertisers spend $1.5 trillion per year on their messages to get consumers to buy their products illustrates an everyday example of a kind of:
a) propaganda.
b) persuasion.
c) language misuse.
d) political rhetoric.
2. Propaganda is a kind of:
a) thinking error.
b) misconception.
c) persuasive communication.
d) critical writing.
3. Three of the four components of the writing process agreed upon by most writing experts are:
a) planning, translating ideas into text, and reviewing/revision.
b) collecting information, planning, and drafting.
c) collecting information, planning, and reviewing/revision.
d) collecting information, translating ideas into text, and reviewing/revision.
4. Clinicians (psychologists and psychiatrists) are more likely to make diagnoses that are unreliable when they have:
a) diagnosed clients showing signs of psychosis and social withdrawal.
b) not paid attention to all the diagnostic criteria in the DSM.
c) been trained as psychologists and not as psychiatrists.
d) paid attention to a lot of information about the client.
5. Ambiguity and vagueness of language are MOSTLY a problem related to:
a) clarity.
b) coherence.
c) grammatical and recursive aspects of language.
d) plagiaris and the tendency toward intellectual dishonesty.
6. Tran is writing an essay in which he wishes to make a rebuttal and introduce the counterargument with a transition word. Which word would BEST help Tran creat a clear transition?
a) Conclusion
b) However
c) Therefore
d) Inference
7. Damisch, Stroberock, and Mussweiller (2010) conducted a series of experiments on whether having a lucky charm could improve performance. Half of the college student participants had a lucky charm available during performance of experimental tasks, such as remembering pairs of cards, while the other half did not. Which statement BEST describes the study findings?
a) Those students in both groups who believed in lucky charms performed better than those who did not.
b) The students with the lucky charm performed worse than students who did not have a lucky charm available because they were overconfident.
c) The students with the lucky charm performed significantly better than students who did not have a lucky charm available.
d) The students with the lucky charm performed no better than at chance levels, as would be expected if superstitions are irrational and ineffective.
8. From the perspective of the critical thinking goal of making well-reasoned arguments, the strategy of attacking a person is a problem because it:
a) deflects the evaluation away from the argument and onto the person.
b) does not give the person being attacked the opportunity to respond.
c) is unethical to criticize another person to such a degree.
d) may not be a true portrayal of the person.
9. Which description is accurate concerning the mental status examination?
a) It is primarily what a clinician uses to decide whether a client has recovered from after receiving a particular psychotherapy.
b) It is another name for the diagnosis of a mental disorder.
c) It is mostly based on a client's self-report of his or her own mental functioning and why the person has sought help.
d) It involves assessment of a person's attitude, mood, emotion, motor function, and cognition.
10. If someone argues that sadness differs from minor depression and from major depression to some degree along a quantitative dimension, then that person is most likely viewing these differences:
a) as the way the DSM does, in terms of diagnostic categories.
b) as categorical.
c) as continuous.
d) In a qualitative way.