If mild to moderate depression alternates with periods when a person's mood is elevated, expansive, or irritable, the disorder is called
a. dysthymia.
b. cyclothymic disorder.
c. a conversion reaction.
d. dissociative disorder.
ANSWER: b
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a. Systematic visual scanning of the features of the houses b. Object permanence c. Primarily right-brain thinking d. Greater brain plasticity
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A. correlations may, in fact, give clues to real causes B. there is no way of determining whether smoking causes lung cancer C. smoking does not cause lung cancer D. even strong correlations can be misleading
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a. we have difficulty on a Stroop task, because we pay attention to meaning, rather than ink color. b. ironically, we often make more errors on a familiar attention task than we make on an unfamiliar attention task. c. when we try to avoid a particular thought, it may be even more likely to enter consciousness. d. we often cannot introspect accurately about the cognitive processes we use in everyday life.
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