Avery has been snorting cocaine for over a year. In his attempts to achieve a high that is as euphoric as his first (which he will never be able to do), he now needs increasingly greater amounts of the drug. This demonstrates ____
a. physical dependence c. tolerance
b. withdrawal d. addiction
C
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The core pathology of later adolescence is repudiation. This refers to
a. a hostile rejection of ideas and groups that do not adhere to one's own beliefs. b. withdrawal from the support and companionship of others. c. self-doubt and self-criticism. d. a sense of having violated one's own standards for good and moral behavior.
A person highly trained in yoga and meditation is capable of controlling his heart rate and blood pressure, that is, raising and lowering it at will. A student of psychology knows that these functions are controlled by the
a. motor cortex. c. somatic nervous system. b. somatosensory cortex. d. autonomic nervous system.
Which of the following is a plausible explanation for how maternal influenza might lead to schizophrenia later in life?
a. The flu virus may lie dormant in the brain until adolescence when it becomes active and initiates the degeneration that results in the symptoms of schizophrenia. b. The flu exposure may alter the fetal genes such that a susceptibility to schizophrenia is now part of the child's genetic makeup. c. Maternal antibodies could cross the placenta and interfere with brain development such that the risk of developing schizophrenia is enhanced later in life. d. The flu virus frequently has long-term effects on the behavior of affected individuals; maternal infection with influenza may result in an environment that is likely to trigger schizophrenia in the susceptible individual.
The International Statistical Classification of Diseases, Injuries, and Causes of Death (ICD) was the first attempt at classifying mental illness by the American Psychiatric Association
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