Compare typical and atypical antipsychotic medications.
What will be an ideal response?
Typical antipsychotic medications were largely developed before atypical antipsychotic medications. In general, antipsychotic medications were used to reduce the instance of positive symptoms of schizophrenia by their antagonistic actions against the dopamine receptors, resulting in less dopamine being registered and affecting the system. However, these drugs reduce dopamine in general, which results in side effects. Atypical antipsychotic medications, instead, selectively impact the prefrontal cortex as an agonist but impact the mesolimbic system as an antagonist.
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A. is a vocal tic involving the yelling of obscenities B. frequently accompanies encopresis C. is a common side effect of medications used in the treatment of childhood depression D. is a rare pervasive developmental disorder
Deliberately inducing discomfort or anxiety in an interviewee
a. should always be avoided. b. is likely to increase how much information an interviewee reveals. c. is related to the interviewer's training. d. is appropriate for certain types of interviews.
The sampling distribution of the mean is
a. the population mean. b. the distribution of the population mean over many populations. c. the distribution of sample means over repeated samples. d. the mean of the distribution of the sample.
The three main components of an attitude are
a. belief, emotion, and action. b. belief, conditioning, and experience. c. emotion, experience, and behavior. d. conditioning, feelings, and action.