Lara is taken by her friends to the mental health crisis unit. She suffer from chronic alcoholism but has had no other previous history of mental problems. She says that she is frightened because she believes that bugs are crawling on her skin
The emergency room psychiatrist would be correct to hypothesize that Lara was
manifesting ______.
a. delirium tremens from alcohol withdrawal
b. an acute schizophrenic episode
c. the manic phase of a bipolar disorder
d. a pseudo-epileptic seizure
A
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People remembered and reported the time when they decided to flex the wrist. Researchers compared that report to the time when activity began increasing in the premotor cortex. What was the theoretical importance of the results?
a. They suggest that the conscious mind is separate from brain activity. b. They suggest that conscious thought depends mainly on the right hemisphere. c. They suggest that conscious thought overrules unconscious processes. d. They suggest that conscious thought does not control our actions.
When a meal brings more nutrients into the body than the cells can use at the time, what happens to the rest of them? a. The body excretes them as waste
b. The body stores them in fat cells or in the liver. c. The nutrients remain in the blood stream until the cells need them. d. The body converts the extra nutrients into muscle tissue.
Approximately adults in the United States will experience a mental disorder every year
a. five in ten b. two in three c. one in ten d. one in four
Regarding Beck's views on depression, which of the following definitions of cognitive errors and negative schema is NOT correct?
a. In a self-blame schema, depressed individuals feel personally responsible for every bad thing that happens. b. Arbitrary inference means that a depressed individual emphasizes the positive rather than the negative aspects of a situation. c. In a negative self-evaluation schema, depressed individuals believe that they can never do anything correctly. d. Overgeneralization occurs when a small error is magnified to mean something much more significant.