The sailors who survived the capsizing of the Aleutian Enterprise filed a lawsuit against the company that owned the ship. They claimed that they suffered psychological harm (e.g., posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)) as a result of this event. What was the outcome of this case?
A. The court did not compensate them because they were not hurt physically.
B. They were compensated for their psychological injuries because they had been in the "zone of danger."
C. The court did not compensate them because they were not close enough to the "zone of danger" to be eligible for compensation.
D. They were compensated because PTSD was diagnosed in all of the sailors by experts hired by both sides.
B
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A researcher studies a group of elderly people and finds that, as a group, the better their memory performance, the lower their anxiety level. What can be said about this research?
a. It was a correlational study. b. The results show that memory loss causes anxiety. c. It was an experiment. d. The results show a perfect positive correlation.
Fanny, who lives in the United States, has AIDS. When her son Alexander is born, he also tests positive for HIV. Fanny wonders what this means for Alexander's life expectancy. Fanny's competent doctor is most likely to tell her that as the result of the development of more effective drug treatments, Alexander will
a. die within a few weeks. b. live one to two years. c. have a 50 to 75 percent chance of living to age five years. d. be unlikely to ever die of the complications of AIDS.
Which of the following regarding bipolar disorder in young people is false?
a. Manic episodes in their fully developed state are clearly different usual behavior. b. Girls are more commonly diagnosed with bipolar disorder than boys c. Bipolar disorder is extremely rare in young children. d. Rates of bipolar disorder are higher in clinical samples.
According to Aristotle, we perceive environmental objects because:
a. tiny copies of them enter the pores of the body b. their movement influences a medium, which in turn stimulates one or more of the five senses c. their eidola go through one or more of the five senses and then to the heart d. their eidola go through one or more of the five senses and then to the brain