Nation Building Did Not Work as President Kennedy Had Envisioned

question 4

Multiple Choice

Nation building did not work as President Kennedy had envisioned because ___________________.

• A) the monetary aid was usually funneled through a self-interested elite and often did not reach the very poor
• B) Congress refused to appropriate the sums of money needed to make the program succeed
• C) the Soviet Union gave more foreign aid to the Third World than did the United States
• D) Communist subversives staged violent protests, which forced many countries to reject the U.S. offer of assistance

Recognize the common irrational assumptions and thought patterns that contribute to anxiety according to cognitive theories.

Apply knowledge of psychological theories to analyze case vignettes of persons experiencing anxiety disorders.

Understand the historical and theoretical underpinnings of anxiety disorders from multiple psychological perspectives.

Distinguish between normal and pathological anxiety and obsessive-compulsive behaviors using theoretical criteria and examples.

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Definitions:

Skewed

A distribution that is not symmetrical, with a majority of data points lying on one side of the mean.

Bimodal

A distribution with two different modes, or peaks, in a set of data, indicating two dominant frequencies or values.

Normal Distribution

Normal distribution, often called a bell curve, describes a symmetrical distribution of data where most values cluster around a central mean.