Bertram suffers from schizophrenia with symptoms of catatonia. Sometimes he seems to "freeze up" in an unusual body position for hours at a time. This particular symptom is called

a. hysterical neurosis.
b. disorganized thinking. c. waxy flexibility.
d. psychotic frenzy.
e. la belle indifference.


c

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Malcolm works for a major pharmaceutical company and is in charge of designing a clinical protocol to study depression. The new medication under investigation has the potential to alleviate the symptoms of depression

Malcolm needs to describe how depression as well as how the improvement of depressive symptoms will be defined in the study in order to recruit the right subjects. In other words, Malcolm needs to provide a(n) a. hypothesis. b. theory. c. operational definition. d. functional definition. e. investigative definition.

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The first step in adaptation is

A) cognitive disequilibrium. B) cognitive equilibrium. C) assimilation. D) accommodation.

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