Helen is a 66-year-old widow who has been diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder
Which class of medication is most likely to be used in treating her symptoms?
a. benzodiazepines c. mood stabilizers
b. phenothiazines d. antidepressants
A
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________ is not surprising that many students with emotional and behavioral disorders also have language deficits because
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Antidiuretic hormone (ADH) is released in response to
A. osmotic thirst only. B. hypovolemic thirst only. C. either osmotic or hypovolemic thirst. D. release of renin.
Deangelo, age 52, has been unemployed for 18 months. Having spent his entire life living below the poverty line, Deangelo often felt like he never found a respected place in society. Deangelo is probably directing his energies toward __________
A) survival B) creation C) generativity D) engagement
Doug is enamored of the humanistic approach to understanding personality. He identifies the five most "evolved" people he personally knows—folks who are smart, witty, spiritually-centered, creative, and adventuresome—and interviews each in depth. At the conclusion of his investigations he finds that they are all quite self-actualized. What is the central problem with Doug's approach?
A. He may have fallen prey to the blacktop illusion; Doug was unable to see past the "humanistic horizon" proposed by Maslow. B. He may have fallen prey to the simulation heuristic; he imagined what these people would be like, and interacted with them accordingly. C. He may have fallen prey to an elusive correlation; he underestimated the magnitude of the relationship between personality and behavior. D. He may have fallen prey to the confirmation bias; Doug interviewed people he thought would be self-actualized, and discovered they seemed to be self-actualized.