A woman worries so much about the specks of dirt left on the vegetables purchased in the local grocery store that she washes each vegetable 10 or 15 times before cooking it. She is probably suffering from
a. a general anxiety disorder
b. a phobic disorder
c. an obsessive-compulsive disorder
d. a personality disorder
Answer: C
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Which of these has been a trend in psychiatry from the mid-1900s until today?
a. Greater reliance on the theories of Sigmund Freud b. Larger number of possible diagnoses, more precisely described c. Greater use of confining patients to large mental hospitals d. More use of talk therapies, and less use of medications
If we decide not to reject the idea that a sample represents a particular population, because the sample mean does not lie within the rejection region,
a. although the probability is low, our decision may be wrong. b. the probability is high that our decision is wrong. c. we cannot know the probability of our decision being right or wrong. d. the probability of our decision being correct is 0.05.
Outpatient hospice service is more common because it is cost effective.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
If we asked you, "Which is a darker shade of red: the red of a hot sports car or the red in a devil's cape?" the region of the brain which would show an increased activity (as measured by a PET scan) would probably be:
A) the occipital regions and the posterior parietal area B) the frontal region and the central sulcus C) the Fissure of Rolando D) the pons E) the cortex