A 35-year-old individual named Manny has recently formulated an elaborate plan to cure AIDS with vitamin therapy. To provide funding for this cause, he has withdrawn all the money from his bank account and purchased thousands of jars of vitamins and small boxes in which to put them. When he appeared at a hospital emergency room loudly demanding names of patients with AIDS, he himself was
hospitalized for psychiatric observation. What of the following is Manny experiencing?
a. Major depressive episode
b. Hypomanic episode
c. Manic episode
d. Postpartum psychosis
c
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The term ____ refers to selling or giving a previously purchased product to someone else to use for its intended purpose
a. lateral cycling b. e-commerce c. social currency d. guerilla consumption
____ is a distorted thinking category in which one exaggerates or downplay the importance of something. "My stomach hurts. It must be appendicitis.". "Yes I smoke but I'll outlive all you nonsmokers."
a. Overgeneralization c. Discounting the positives b. Magnification or minimization d. Mental filter
A student in a geometry class watches as the teacher hastily draws various geometric shapes on the blackboard. The student's ability to see the incomplete figures as complete can be best attributed to the perceptual process of
a. closure. b. figure and ground. c. temporal integration. d. good continuation.
Clearly, it is not possible for a person to have a perceptual experience if the stimulus in their surroundings is not detected. What are the absolute thresholds for each of the five sensory systems as presented in the textbook?
What will be an ideal response?