Marge has gone to doctors with more than twenty different somatic complaints in the past year and has had surgery four times. She has few anxiety or depressive symptoms, but doctors never satisfy her when they say, "There's nothing wrong with you physically." What is unusual about this patient?
a. People with somatic symptom disorders rarely shop around for doctors
b. People with somatic symptom disorders usually show only one physical complaint.
c. Somatic symptom disorder often includes depression and anxiety.
d. Somatic symptom disorder affects mostly males.
c
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In a lecture on eating disorders, Professor Lublin noted that binge-eating has been classified as disorder characterized by consumption of large amounts of food over a short period of time and accompanied by feelings of paranoia, but like bulimia, the episodes are generally followed by use of compensatory behaviors like vomiting or fasting. Which of Professor Lublin's statements in accurate?
a. Binge-eating has been classified as an Axis I disorder. b. Binge-eating is characterized by consumption of large amounts of food over a short period of time. c. Binge-eating is generally followed by use of compensatory behaviors like vomiting or fasting. d. Binge-eating is characterized by feelings of paranoia.
Individuals at Kohlberg's postconventional level __________.
A) accept the rules of authority figures and judge actions by their consequences B) believe that actively maintaining the current social system ensures societal order C) define morality in terms of abstract principles and values that apply to all societies D) view behaviors that result in punishment as bad and those that lead to rewards as good
When did the American Psychological Association, as an organization, submit its first amicus brief to the Supreme Court?
A. In 1954, on school desegregation B. In 1962, on expert witnesses C. In 1979, on jury research D. In 1986, on homosexuality
The clearest examples of anxiety disorders are _______
a. compulsions b. phobias c. panic attacks d. obsessions