What individual mental disorder in the United States has the highest lifetime prevalence rate?
A. Major depressive disorder
B. Alcohol abuse
C. Specific phobia
D. Social phobia
Answer: A
You might also like to view...
The 2002 version of the APA Code of Ethics directs psychologists who administer tests to
a. utilize tests that are written in English. b. interpret results in a standardized, objective fashion. c. use instruments with established validity and reliability for use with members of the population being tested. d. use instruments that have validity and reliability in studies using representative samples of the general population.
Suppose that a psychologist loans you an art book and says that the book includes some interesting ambiguous figure-ground pictures. You should expect to see
a. a random arrangement of black-and-white figures. b. a photo of real-life figures, rather than black-and-white shapes. c. a picture in which a specific region is the central figure one moment, but this region becomes the background the next moment. d. a picture that has at least two subjective contours.
Which of the following is an example of repression?
A. Sucking your thumb as an adult B. Forgetting the name of someone you dislike C. Kicking your dog after a hard day at work D. Telling an individual that you despise that he/she hates you
Shortly after birth, David's head began to grow. A shunt was placed in his skull to drain fluid. He has seizures, trouble seeing, and mild intellectual deficits. David's most likely diagnosis is __________.
A. microcephaly B. phenylketonuria C. Turner's syndrome D. hydrocephaly