As Will approaches the witness stand, he stops and clutches his throat. He has to leave the courtroom because he is unable to speak. If he has no other symptoms, his condition might be diagnosed as ____

a. panic disorder
b. factitious disorder
c. agoraphobia
d. functional neurological symptom disorder (conversion disorder)


d

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a. any helping behavior b. any behavior that is good for other people or for society as a whole c. conformity d. behavior that does not benefit oneself

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_____ illness is a symptom or a disorder that occurs as a result of a medical or psychotherapeutic treatment itself as a result of the therapist's mistaken belief that the client has a certain disorder.

A) Iatrogenic B) Self-fulfilling C) Dissociative D) Placebo-induced

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What is the value that our sample mean must exceed in order for us to reject the null hypothesis?

a. zcritical b. mcritical c. Cohen’s U3 d. ? level

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The description of traits expressed by two alleles that can be either dominant or recessive is:

A) the simplest model of genetic transmission B) applies to the subset of characteristics determined by single genes C) both a and b D) neither a nor b

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