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Questions

1. David is known throughout the school as the class bully. The school psychologist decides to utilize the direct observational method of assessment and sits in on David's class three separate times on three different days. During all three visits, David is the perfect student, an "angel" of a child. Describe the strengths and limitations of this method of assessment. Indicate what the school psychologist should do obtain assessment information on David.

2. When Tim was a child he had very painful dental work performed. Each visit filled him with fear. His dentist always had the waiting room radio tuned to a classical music station. As an adult, Tim experiences a wave of anxiety when he hears classical music on the radio. What type of conditioning would explain this situation? (classical/operant)? Explain your answer and identify the various components (e.g. the stimulus, reinforcement, response etc.)

3. What are the primary functions of the sympathetic and parasympathetic components of the peripheral nervous system? Describe a situation or experience in which activation of the sympathetic and parasympathetic divisions has occurred.

4. Imagine that you want to help a friend remember all the facts in a psychology course. How would you use THREE of the following strategies/concepts to support his/her memory for the course material: maintenance rehearsal, elaborative rehearsal, verbal mnemonics, retrieval cues, chunking, and the encoding specificity principle.