What is the hostile attribution bias?

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What is the hostile attribution bias?

Correct Answer: B

Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.

Question 2 of 5

Dinah, a therapist, works with her clients to help them change their problematic behaviors and irrational thoughts and provide new, more adaptive behaviors and beliefs to replace old, maladaptive ones. Dinah uses what type of therapy?

Correct Answer: C

Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.

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The process of forming impressions about people involves perception of that person. Just like top-down processing can influence sensory perception, it can also influence social perception (forming an impression of someone else) because people often 'see' what they expect to see, and in the process, may create a

Correct Answer: B

Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.

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Stereotypes tend to be resistant to change because

Correct Answer: D

Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.

Question 5 of 5

A kindergartener is disruptive in class. This child is unable to sit for expected lengths of time, inattentive to the teacher, screams while the teacher is talking, and is aggressive toward other children. The nurse plans interventions designed to:

Correct Answer: C

Rationale: Because of their disruptive behaviors, children with ADHD often receive negative feedback from parents, teachers, and peers, leading to self-esteem disturbance. These behaviors also cause peers to avoid the child with ADHD, leaving the child with ADHD vulnerable to loneliness. The child does not need inpatient treatment at this time. The incorrect options might or might not be relevant.

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