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whose behavior is abnormal, someone who refuses to conform to the accepted norms
of his society. This, of course, immediately begs the question, "What is
normal " Most of us, after all, have our quirks and oddities. It may be a
passion for entering newspaper competitions, a compulsion for collecting beer
mats, a tendency to write indignant letters to the press on every conceivable
subject. Eccentricity is the assertion of our individuality. Within most of us
that urge is constantly in conflict with the contrary force. It is as though in
the depths of our psyche we have two locomotives head-to- head on the same
track, pushing against each other. One is called individualism and the other
conformity, and in most of us it is conformity that is more powerful. The desire
to be accepted, loved, appreciated, to feel at one wit A. (A) want to show that they are different B. (B) try to do what is expected of them C. (C) express their own views in public D. (D) pretend to be something they are not [填空题]
Uncooperative Patients Need Psychological Therapy By refusing to take essential medication after a kidney transplant, a 49-year-old woman drives her doctors and nurses to distraction — to no avail, because the organ has in the end to be removed. (1) Patients refusing to cooperate with medical professionals cause damage not only to themselves but also impose substantial costs on the community. The pharmaceutical company Glaxo Welcome estimates the costs to the German taxpayers of this kind of negative behaviour at around five billion dollars a year. A. recent conference of medical professionals, health insurers, the pharmaceutical industry and patient representatives revealed a wide range of factors behind non-compliance. Not all defiant behaviour in a patient can be characterized as non-compliance. Greater stress should be placed on psychology during medical training, delegates said. (2) Psychologist [简答题]Memorandum of Understanding
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The standardized educational or psychological tests, that are widely used to aid in selecting, assigning, or promoting students, employees, and military personnel have been the target of recent attacks in books, magazines, the daily press, and even in Congress. The target is wrong, for in attacking the tests, critics divert attention from the fault that lies with ill-informed or incompetent users. The tests themselves are merely tools, with characteristics that can be measured with reasonable precision under specified conditions. Whether the results will be valuable, meaningless, or even misleading depends partly upon the tool itself but largely upon the user. [单项选择]
Psychological maladjustment in children is caused by the stress of the birthing process as is proved by the discovery of a positive relationship between the duration of the mother’s labor and the amount of time the child spent crying in the first month of life. Which of the following, if true, LEAST damages the author’s assertion（） A. There is no relationship between the amount of time spent crying and psychological maladjustment B. Behavior indicative of psychological maladjustment does not appear until the third month of a child’s life C. From the infant’s point of view, a hurried labor is more stressful than a gradual, slow delivery D. The estimates of the duration of labor were based on obstetricians’ estimates of the time of the onset of labor E. The infants who have experienced the greatest stress during birth are often too weak to cry for extended periods of time [单项选择]Psychological research indicates that college hockey and football players are more quickly moved to hostility and aggression than are college athletes in noncontact sports such as swimming. But the researchers’ conclusion—that contact sports encourage and teach participants to be hostile and aggressive—is untenable. The football and hockey players were probably more hostile and aggressive to start with than the simmers.
Which of the following, if true, would most strengthen the conclusion drawn by the psychological researchers A. The football and hockey players became more hostile and aggressive during the season and remained so during the off-season, whereas there was no increase in aggressiveness among the swimmers. B. The football and hockey players, but not the swimmers were aware at the start of the experiment that they were being tested for aggressiveness. C. The same psychological research indicated that the football and hockey players had a great respect for cooperation and team play, whereas the swimmers were most concerned with excelling as individual competitors. D. The research studies were designed to include no college athletes who participated in both contact and noncontact sports. E. (E) Throughout the United States, more incidents of fan violence occur at baseball games than occur at hockey or football games. 我来回答: 提交
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