Regarding schizophrenia, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. Schizophrenia involves a "split personality," in which a person has two distinct personalities, one normal and one abnormal.
b. One person in 100 has schizophrenia in any given year.
c. Disorganized, catatonic, paranoid, and undifferentiated are the four major subtypes of schizophrenia.
d. Many schizophrenic symptoms appear to be related to problems with selective attention.
a. Schizophrenia involves a "split personality," in which a person has two distinct personalities, one normal and one abnormal.
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The asylums created during the Renaissance were generally
a. highly therapeutic with first rate treatment. b. lacking in treatment with poor living conditions. c. about the same as the community center punishment corridors. d. nonexistent.
Research suggests that an emotional difference between men and women is
a. men experience more emotional than women. b. women are more outwardly expressive than men. c. women experience emotions more than men. d. men are taught to display their emotions more than women.
Which of the following can be thought of as a "bottleneck," or a narrowing in the information channel linking the senses to perception, that is, when one message enters the bottleneck, it seems to prevent others from passing through?
a. selective attention b. sensory gating c. sensory adaptation d. subliminal attention
Idaho, Utah, and Montana have adopted a version of the GBMI verdict, in which the accused
A. remains permanently in a psychiatric facility. B. is imprisoned but is assured of receiving mental health services. C. is imprisoned but is provided with mental health services only if they are available. D. can choose either hospitalization or imprisonment.