A disorder in which a person who has experienced a traumatic or life-threatening event experiences symptoms such as psychic numbing, reliving the trauma, sense of detachment from others, loss of interest in familiar activities and increased psychological arousal is called


Answer: post traumatic stress disorder

Psychology

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A. the cocktail party effect B. the bottleneck of attention C. a consistent mapping condition D. a shadowing task

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Describe Sternberg's three components of love

What will be an ideal response?

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The Hull–Spence model predicts ______ with discrimination training than with nondiscrimination training.

A. a lower generalization gradient B. no change in the generalization gradient C. a steeper generalization gradient D. a steeper than shallower generalization gradient

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All of the following statements for when to use a nonparametric test are true, EXCEPT ______.

A. the data in the population can have any type of distribution B. the data are measured on a nominal scale of measurement C. the data are measured on an ordinal scale of measurement D. the data meet all assumptions for parametric testing

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