Exaggerating the severity of mental disorders, often due to unconscious cultural biases, is called _____.
a. social conditioning
b. the ethnological view
c. psychiatric epidemiology
d. overpathologizing
Ans: d. overpathologizing
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a) gender stereotype b) sex role c) gender role d) sexual orientation
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A) 25 B) 35 C) 50 D) 65
According to the transfer-appropriate processing account of implicit/explicit dissociations,
a) explicit memory tests are typically conceptually-driven, while implicit tests are typically data-driven b) explicit memory tests are typically data-driven, so are aided most by conceptually-driven tasks c) explicit memory taps declarative memory, while implicit memory taps procedural memory d) explicit memory taps procedural memory, while implicit memory taps declarative memory
Ultrasonography is used for all of the following purposes except _______
a. measuring the size and gestational age of the fetus b. detecting whether twins or triplets are present c. detecting abnormalities of the limbs, heart, and other major organs d. determining whether fetal alcohol effects have occurred in the fetus’s brain