Joelle has taken her son to many doctors, claiming that he has Morgellons disease. She says that she often pulls organic fiber-like threads from his skin and that the boy has rashes and skin lesions that show infection. Which statement about this disease is accurate?
a. This disease has been recognized as a medical disorder by the AMA.
b. The CDC began conducting research on this disease in early 2008.
c. Patients with the condition respond well to treatment with antibiotics.
d. This disease is being designated as a delusional disorder in DSM-5.
b
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A psychologist is reluctant to use parents' observations of their children in determining levels of their children's depression. However, parents often insist on being consulted. What is the psychologist likely to find when parents are asked to evaluate
their children's levels of depression? a. Parents tend to underestimate the extent of depression reported by their children. b. Parents frequently mistake the symptoms of depression as signs of a developing psychotic process. c. Parents tend to overreact to minor symptoms and overestimate the severity of the depression. d. Whenever parents are involved in such data collection, they immediately put themselves in the role of the therapist and begin treatment, often with disastrous results.
Research has found that a(n) _______________ mother-child attachment is just as likely to occur, regardless of the quality, duration, and frequency of childcare. The age at which a child enters child care is similarly unlikely to interfere with such an attachment
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
A girl with a distorted body image, an intense fear of gaining weight, and a refusal to maintain a minimally healthy body weight is probably suffering from ________
Fill in the blank with the appropriate word.
Which of the following is not a correlational measure described in the textbook?
A) point biserial correlation B) Galton's coefficient of relation C) Kendall's coefficient of rank correlation D) Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient