In Real People, Real Disorders, the case of Andrea Yates is presented. She is the mother who drowned her five children while suffering from postpartum psychosis. According to your authors, the risk for postpartum psychosis is higher among women who
__________.
A) experience difficult pregnancies and births
B) have been diagnosed before pregnancy as having schizoaffective disorder
C) have a preexisting psychological disorder and/or experience a stressful life event
D) experience a highly stressful life event just before delivery
Answer: C
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a. distributed coding. b. specificity coding. c. subtraction techniques. d. primary receiving areas.
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communicated their expectations to the students, which created a self-fulfilling prophecy. d. the two groups were really not equal in their ability at the start of the experiment.
A research assistant helping out with a study of 3-month-old infants notices that a particular infant responds much more slowly in the laboratory procedure than other infants she has seen in a month of working on the study
According to research ethics guidelines, the research assistant should a. stop the session and let the parent know that the infant might be developmentally delayed b. give the parent detailed, specific information about the infant's performance compared to other infants, hoping that the parent will seek help from the infant's pediatrician c. discuss the infant's performance with the principal researcher but say nothing to the parent because the laboratory procedure is not a recognized developmental assessment and the research assistant lacks expertise in infant assessment d. notify child protection authorities immediately
The classical approach to concepts is that they are mental representations of
A. the averaged features of all members of a category. B. the collection of all retrieved memories of encounters with members of a category. C. a definition consisting of necessary and sufficient features of all members of a category. D. how and why features of category members are related to one another.