Brenda is a psychiatrist, and has heard that one of her new patients is particularly difficult to treat. He won't take his medication, and has never shown much improvement from his illness.
Brenda doesn't expect to be able to treat him successfully, and unintentionally treats this patient differently than her other ones. She is uncreative in how she approaches his therapy and medication, and after a few months also concludes that he is incurable. Brenda's approach to this new patient best illustrates the power of
a. self-fulfilling prophecies.
b. persuasion.
c. social cognition.
d. individual differences.
Question 2
The social cognition approach compares people to amateur
a. detectives.
b. lawyers.
c. artists.
d. accountants.
Patients are encouraged to take an active role in their health care.
Nurse's hand over patients abdomen
Age at First Sign of Psychotic Symptoms in Schizophrenic Patients
Retrograde Amnesia in Patients with Hippocampal Damage
Patients unable to stand may be weighed using a chair scale.
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