The medical model has guided professionals toward examining the damaged brain and ______, resulting in making prevention more difficult.
a. personal weakness
b. new therapeutic practices
c. containing the mentally ill
d. increasing diagnoses
Ans: A
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a. a return of the repressed. b. high anxiety. c. the rebound anxiety syndrome. d. a discontinuance syndrome.
Punishment is rarely used as the sole type of behavioral intervention because the use of punishment:
a. actually causes the undesirable behavior to increase b. only teaches someone what not to do, it does not teach someone the appropriate way to act c. usually suppresses adaptive behaviors as well as maladaptive behaviors d. can cause the client to become overly dependent on the therapist
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a. resting potential. c. the refractory period. b. polarization. d. the all-or-none principle.
Which adolescent displays a symptom that might lead a psychologist to suspect that a diagnosis of depression might be appropriate?
a) Tim, who suffers from narcolepsy b) Alice, who seems to be quite angry c) Kara, who has bouts of hyperactivity d) Jake, who has experienced visual hallucinations