When a person's behavior is maladaptive, a relative may start
legal procedures that may result in the finding of
insanity with these legal procedures called
a. psychotic findings.
b. psychopathology lawsuits.
c. commitment proceedings.
d. diagnostic and statistical analyses.
ANSWER: c
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Dr. Karlin specializes in working with clients whose emotional problems interfere with their ability to work effectively or to engage in meaningful relationships. She focuses on which criterion of abnormality?
a. distress b. deviance c. dangerousness d. dysfunction
Molly and her husband have been kissing and caressing for about 15 minutes. Her level of arousal is still increasing and she can feel some tightening in her vagina. Based on the phases described by Masters and Johnson, Molly is in the:
a. excitement phase b. plateau phase c. orgasmic phase d. resolution phase
Emotions have a. subjective, but not physical qualities
b. both physical and subjective qualities. c. neither physical nor subjective qualities. d. physical, but not subjective qualities.
To say that children engage in "magical thinking" means they
a. believe all objects and events in the world have been manufactured to serve people b. attribute life and consciousness to objects that others think of as inanimate c. explain events by the causal influence of various commands, intentions, and forces d. all of these e. none of these