How have antidepressants (such as SSRIs) changed the way some people view personality?

What will be an ideal response?


In lifting the depressed mood, the drugs also seem to change people's personalities with just slight alterations in brain chemistry. It seems that personality may not be something that simply resides fixed and stable within people. Rather, personality may be a function of the biological processes that also contribute to psychological symptoms.

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Heavy use of marijuana by teenagers has been associated with ____

a. ?severe withdrawal symptoms b. ?later appearance of mental disorder c. ?increases in creativity d. ?increased memory capacity

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In the 1954 movie, The Magnificent Obsession, Rock Hudson portrays a rich playboy who becomes a physician to atone for a serious accidental injury he caused. His character's medical career was motivated by

a. imminent justice. b. felt responsibility. c. self-oriented distress. d. heteronomous morality.

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Experts operate on intuitive judgments of how to approach a problem based on experience.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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The theory suggesting that overall processing speed declines in the peripheral nervous system with increasing age is called __________

a) pulmonary hardening theory b) peripheral slowing hypothesis c) generalized slowing hypothesis d) decreased myelination theory

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