Which of the following is a true statement about the empirical validity of mood
disorders?
a. Studies have shown that there is little overlap between mood and anxiety
disorders in childhood and adolescence.
b. The validity of bipolar disorder is well established in adulthood but not in
childhood and adolescence.
c. The empirical validity of bipolar disorder in young children has been challenged
because they show rapid fluctuations in mood more than clear periods of cycling
between depressive and manic symptoms.
d. Major depressive disorder and dysthymia are difficult to distinguish before
adulthood.
e. The empirical validity of mood disorders is questionable before adulthood
because these disorders are relatively rare in children and adolescents.
C
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Even if a treatment has no effect, it is still possible to obtain an extreme sample mean that is very different from the population mean. What outcome is likely if this happens?
a. Reject H0and make a Type I error b. Correctly reject H0 c. Fail to reject H0 and make a Type II error d. Correctly fail to reject H0
In working with leukemic children ages three to nine, anthropologist Myra Bluebond-Langner concluded
a. that these children were generally unaware of their dying condition. b. that these children seemed to know they were dying but felt this was a reversible process. c. that age was not as important in the children's self-awareness of their dying as was their experience with the disease and its treatment. d. both b and c. e. None of the above.
During the Enlightenment, thinkers in all areas—science, politics, and the arts—were skeptical about ____
a. the idea that God is an unknowable entity b. earlier claims that religion and metaphysics are the sources of knowledge c. the validity of the heliocentric model of the universe d. the benefits of empiricist philosophies
The body weights of adopted children __________
A) correlate more strongly with those of their biological than of their adoptive parents B) correlate more strongly with those of their adoptive than of their biological parents C) show little or no correlation to either their biological or adoptive parents D) correlate strongly with their adoptive siblings