You have advised a patient to discontinue use of antianxiety drugs. After two weeks, your patient calls to complain that his anxiety symptoms are now worse than before he started to take the drug. You tell the patient that his feelings are a predictable response to discontinuing antianxiety medication. In fact, he is experiencing what is called
a. addiction. c. rebound anxiety.
b. tolerance. d. relapse.
C
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Why does ANOVA use variance instead of mean differences in its calculation?
What will be an ideal response?
Marty is timid, anxious, and fearful of rejection. He wants to have close relationships with others but is unable to because of his fears. So, he ends up alone and lonely. He is suffering from ______ personality disorder
a. schizoid c. avoidant b. dependent d. borderline
Suppose I am interested in knowing whether adults who are very introverted at age 20 are still highly introverted at age 50. Which of the following statistical analyses will I be most likely to use?
a. a comparison of average introversion scores for a sample of adults aged 20 and another sample aged 50 b. a comparison of average introversion scores at age 20 and age 50 for the same adults assessed longitudinally c. an analysis of the average amount in introversion between any two measurements of the same people over time d. a calculation of the correlation between scores on the key variable at two time points in a group of subjects studied longitudinally between age 20 and age 50