A newspaper headline in 2004 might have read, "Antidepressants raise suicide risk in children and adolescents.". What might subsequent news stories have reported?
a. More research is needed to determine the link between antidepressants and an increase in suicide risk as only one study found this to be the case.
b. Suicide risk is just as likely to be linked to antidepressant use as the other
way around.
c. The researchers who reported these results were found to have faked them.
d. No action was taken by the FDA to address the link between antidepressants and the increase in suicide attempts.
a
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Which of the following facts has been viewed as good evidence that language is an adaptation?
a. Children make mistakes when learning the rules of language. b. There are brain regions specialized for language processing. c. Chimpanzees can be taught to use some manual signs to communicate. d. The human ear is poorly designed for processing speech.
Although Jesse would not be considered an alcoholic, he wishes to reduce the number of beers he drinks to a couple a week. So, Jesse makes out a set of cards that will help him to vividly imagine himself becoming an alcoholic. He will take out these cards and picture this disturbing scene several times a day. To break his drinking habit, Jesse is using
a. stimulus substitution. b. thought control. c. covert sensitization. d. thought stopping.
The first piece of advice given by the wife in Personal Insights 20.2 who cared for her husband with Alzheimer's disease is to act quickly to have a complete medical examination to determine what is going on. She offers this advice because
a. it will help foster denial b. this disease can start slowly and unevenly over a long period of time c. early on she acknowledged what was happening d. she had access to a reliable primary physician who was a longtime family friend e. this is a shameful disease that arises from improper behavior
The term lock and key is a means to provide a visual explanation of which neuron function?
A. degradation of neurochemicals by enzymes B. activation of the nerve impulse C. reuptake of neurochemicals D. action of neurochemicals on receptor sites