In family therapy, the focus is usually on
a. each person's childhood relationships to parents
b. a disturbance in one person that reflects problems in the overall family patterns
c. each partner's blame for their marital troubles
d. whether the couple should remain married
Answer: B
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a. paying attention to the base rate of the diseases. b. showing the confirmation bias. c. demonstrating the small-sample fallacy. d. combining the availability heuristic with the representativeness heuristic.
Which statement concerning differences in brain structure between individuals with and without schizophrenia is accurate? a. Individuals with schizophrenia have enlarged ventricles; individuals without schizophrenia do not
b. Older adults with schizophrenia have demonstrated a strikingly rapid loss of gray matter compared with non-affected age peers. c. Decreased cortical volumes have been found in individuals with schizophrenia, but not in people who do not have the disorder. d. Individuals with schizophrenia have decreased volume in the cortex and other areas of the brain.
The passing along of genes that are physically close to one another on the same chromosome is known as
A. linkage. B. crossing over. C. meiosis. D. gene expression.
The treatment that emphasizes discussion and negotiation between the therapist and patient, balancing the rational and the emotional , and balancing acceptance and changes, is called:
A. Dynamic psychotherapy B. Congnitive-behavior therapy C. Psychoanalytic therapy D. Dialectial behavior therapy.