What do you see as the strengths and weaknesses of the current DSM diagnostic system? Suggest an alternative system or adjustments to the system that you feel would make it more effective
What will be an ideal response?
Good answers will point out an advantage of the DSM system is that it makes it easier for doctors and clinicians to communicate about the disorder a patient has and provides method for consistency in diagnosis since it gives a universally accepted explanation of any given disorder. Disadvantages that could be discussed include the difficulty in assigning people into discrete, nonoverlapping diagnostic categories since the symptom overlap across many disorders is enormous, and the potential problems with the large and ever-expanding array of behaviors that are classified as abnormal.
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a. interpersonal rapport b. language skills c. understanding of language d. persecutory ideation
Briefly describe what happens during Erikson's initiative versus guilt stage
What will be an ideal response?
If the correlation between age and memory is ?.30, how much of the variance in memory is accounted for by age?
a. .09% b. .9% c. 9% d. 90%
In commenting on using verbal reports, Nisbett and Wilson argue that:
a. people often don't accurately describe their own cognitive processes. b. verbal report is highly consistent with actual behavior. c. verbal report is too unreliable to use. d. verbal report and actual behavior need to be conceptualized as two separate, independent phenomena.