In Leon Festinger’s classic study on cognitive dissonance, participants who agreed to lie about the boring peg turning task for $1 ended up liking the task more than participants paid $20 to lie about the boring task.

Based on Mary Ainsworth’s classifications of attachment, when an infant plays and explores the environment freely while the mother is present, becomes visibly upset when she leaves, then is quickly comforted by her return, the infant is showing characteristics of which type of attachment?

Schizophrenia is treated with __________________, whereas bipolar disorder is commonly treated with ____________.

Regina is a deeply unhappy person. Her psyche is dominated by negative emotions, which often lead to unproductive behaviors. She automatically interprets events in negative ways. Her psychotherapist listens closely as she describes her life, then identifies the faulty assumptions that trigger her negative emotions and self-defeating actions. The therapist actively confronts these distorted interpretations and teaches strategies to avoid automatic negative thinking. What approach to psychotherapy is described here?

Carl Rogers believed effective psychotherapy does not depend on special techniques, but on the therapist providing the client with three essential elements. Which of the following is NOT one of the three conditions Rogers believed were necessary for effective therapy?

Jean’s fear of rejection keeps her from letting others see the person she really is inside. She puts up a carefully crafted false front to gain others’ approval. In the process, she is denying herself the right to be her true self. In Rogers’ theory, Jean characterizes a(n) ______________ person.

In Erik Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development, what is the primary developmental task for individuals in their 40s through mid-60s?

In Freud’s theory, the level of consciousness that contains thoughts and ideas not currently in awareness but easily brought to mind is known as the _______________. This level is roughly comparable to long-term memory.

A man has a constant urge to pull out his own hair. He is often overwhelmed by the desire and pulls hairs from his head and eyelashes, resulting in noticeable hair loss. Pulling the hair brings temporary relief, but the powerful urge soon returns. His fixation with hair pulling causes significant distress. He would most likely be diagnosed with a type of 

About what percentage of adults in the U.S. will experience some form of depressive disorder at some point in their lives?