At the insistence of family members, you take your elderly grandfather to a general practice physician, who refers him to a neurologist. When you ask for a description of neurologists, the general practitioner tells you they are
a. psychologists specializing in neuroses.
b. psychiatrists specializing in nervous disorders.
c. psychologists specializing in neuropsychological testing.
d. physicians specializing in diseases of the brain and nervous system.
Answer: d.
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a. cannot understand speech b. forgets the names of objects c. muscles are too weak to move d. cannot translate ideas into meaningful action
The typical dream is likely to include themes or characteristics of:
A. sexual encounters, black and white, and take place outside B. recurrent themes of being threatened and our intentions C. several characters, visual sensations, and motion-like walking D. one character, pain sensations, and joy
For some teens, particularly girls, excessive efforts to control eating may be a misguided effort to ____
a. punish parents b. manage the stress and physical changes c. punish themselves d. regress back to the oral stage of development
Appropriately qualified psychologists were first authorized to testify in court as experts on mental disorder in
a. 1942. b. 1962. c. 1976. d. 1990.