According to the following, which would not be an American Psychiatric Association definition of a psychological disorder?
a. Significant disturbances in thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
b. Disturbances lead to significant distress or disability in one’s life
c. Disturbances reflecting expected or culturally approved responses to certain events
d. Disturbances reflecting some kind of biological, psychological, or developmental dysfunction
c. Disturbances reflecting expected or culturally approved responses to certain events
Disturbances reflecting expected or culturally approved responses to certain events would not be an American Psychiatric Association definition of a psychological disorder.
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Which of the following characterizes a cognitive therapy approach to the treatment of depression?
a. probing for unconscious roots of anger b. focusing on early childhood experiences c. increasing internal causal attributions d. reducing patients' self-defeating thoughts
Statistical data are often relevant when discussing psychological disorders. For example, a researcher might want to know how many new cases of depression are diagnosed each year, a figure called the ________ of the disorder.
A. prevalence B. incidence C. recurrence D. ratio
The language development of children with autism often has ____________________, ____________________, and ____________________
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
Researcher Konrad Lorenz explored the concept of __________ by making sure that he was the first moving thing a clutch of newly hatched goslings saw. The result, as he predicted, was that the young animals followed him around religiously, clearly
demonstrating their belief that he was their mother. a. imprinting b. sensory primacy c. neonatality d. the higher species-lower species schism.