DSM-5 approach to classifying anxiety disorders is based primarily on
a. a psychodynamic model of the cause of each disorder.
b. descriptive features of each disorder.
c. specific scores on tests of anxiety.
d. a dimensional approach.
Answer: b.
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a. declare Valerie legally insane and sentence her to time in a psychiatric facility. b. order that Valerie be involuntarily committed to a psychiatric facility. c. find Valerie is not competent, and postpone the civil hearing until she recovers. d. refuse to intervene because Valerie does not pose a risk to others.
Karen Horney believed that the view that girls feel inferior to boys was based on _____
A) girls' inferiority complex B) scientific evidence C) the theory of psychosocial development D) Western cultural prejudice
Information processing looks at ____________ change
a. qualitative c. erroneous b. quantitative d. quality
Kazbour and Bailey (2010) conducted a study to evaluate an intervention to increase the use of designated drivers in a bar. First, the researchers tracked the number of patrons serving as or being with a designated driver. The researchers then implemented a treatment to increase the use of designated drivers and finally measured how many bar patrons used a designated driver after the intervention was removed. This is an example of a
A. reversal design. B. developmental research. C. one-shot case study. D. cross-sectional study.