Dave's Mother Suggests That He Talk to a Doctor Because

question 24

Multiple Choice

Dave's mother suggests that he talk to a doctor because of his crippling feelings of inferiority. The doctor suggests that Dave's problem stems from internal processes such as self-defeating beliefs, unrealistic expectancies, and negative thinking. This view is typical of the ________ model of abnormality.

• A) cognitive-behavioral
• B) biological
• C) diathesis-stress
• D) psychoanalytic

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Definitions:

Carrying Capacity

The maximum population size of a species that an environment can sustain indefinitely, given the food, habitat, water, and other necessities available in the environment.

Demographic Transition

A model describing how the birth and death rates of a population change over time as a country develops from pre-industrial to industrial economic system.

Environmental Resistance

Factors in the environment that limit the growth, abundance, or distribution of an organism or a population of organisms.

Replacement Reproduction

Population in which each person is replaced by only one child.