A health-care professional should diagnose anorexia nervosa when a girl:
A) weighs less than 85 percent of her ideal weight.
B) has been on a diet for months.
C) weighs less than 100 pounds.
D) binges and purges.
Ans: A) weighs less than 85 percent of her ideal weight.
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A) schizophrenia. B) generalized anxiety disorder. C) bipolar disorder. D) major depressive disorder.
What is the genetically and culturally deficient perspective on human diversity?
A. Genetically deficient groups compensated by developing positive cultural characteristics and behaviors. B. All groups have genetic and cultural deficiencies, so racial and cultural mixing is logical to share strengths and eliminate deficiencies. C. The majority group had the greatest weaknesses and deficiencies and only compensated through large population and oppression of minority groups. D. Biological characteristics explained the differences in the gaps of intelligence between racial groups, and inferior groups could not benefit from growth.
Debra is about to get married for the second time. Her first marriage lasted only two years, and was really a rather unhappy relationship from start to finish. When she thinks back on those times,
, she wonders why she ever got married at all. According to research a. her second marriage is likely to be pretty much as happy as her first marriage was. b. she will have learned a lot of lessons from her first marriage, making her second marriage far more likely to succeed. c. her second marriage will only have a good chance of succeeding if she has no children from her first marriage. d. her second marriage will be complicated by the leftover feelings that she has from her first marriage, because studies show that a minimum of 5 years is needed between marriages to make a second marriage work.
A type of research design which examines a specific culture or context over an extended period
of time is a(n) a. ethnography. b. longitudinal design. c. cross-sectional. d. observational design.