In psychopathology, a(n) ______ approach is used when the presence or absence of particular symptoms determines whether or not an individual is diagnosed with a particular disorder.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).


Ans: categorical

Psychology

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Bed-wetting

a. can only be successfully treated with SSRI medications. b. is a sign of a serious psychological or physical problem. c. should always be treated with antidiuretics. d. usually will just go away with time and patience.

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Roser and colleagues (2015) speculate that adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) outperform controls on implicit spatial relationship tasks because adults with ASD:

A) treated the visual display as a unified whole. B) focused on local relations between objects in the visual display. C) attempted to give meaning to the objects in the visual display. D) encoded the objects sequentially, rather than spatially.

Psychology

The effect of each independent variable across the levels of the other independent variable is a _____ effect

a. main b. design c. factorial d. interaction

Psychology