A woman has had a series of panic attacks and lives in fear of future attacks. In addition, she is now afraid to leave her home because she is afraid of having an attack in public. She discusses the problem with her doctor. What diagnosis is most likely?
a. panic attack with anxiety. c. panic attack with fears of persecution.
b. panic disorder with agoraphobia. d. panic disorder with social phobia.
B
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An alternative to hospitalization, in which dying people stay in their homes and receive treatment from their families and visiting medical staff, is known by which term?
A. hospice care B. home care C. euthanasia D. nursing care
Many psychological researchers have defined intelligence as consisting of one or more
a. mental abilities. c. personality traits. b. factors. d. mental abilities and factors.
Maruya et al used Continuous Flash Suppression in the other eye to prevent perception of a monocularly presented moving adapting stimulus, and compared the resulting aftereffects to those obtained without monocular suppression adaptation. They found:
a. Aftereffects from the adapted eye even with monocular suppression b. No aftereffects from the adapted eye with monocular suppression c. Aftereffects from the unadapted eye with monocular suppression, but only on static test fields d. No aftereffects from the unadapted eye with monocular suppression
The dimensional model of classification is qualitative, implying that
A. it is not possible to place disorders along a continuum of functioning. B. different observed disorders are quantitatively distinct from each other. C. disorders that are observed are simply extreme variations of normal behavior. D. no real differences exist among diagnostic subtypes.