People who experience persecutory delusions may respond to the delusions with "safety behaviors" that remove them from what they view as dangerous situations. This paradoxically prevents ____ from helping them
a. information that contradicts the delusion c. loosening of associations
b. paranoid ideation d. cognitive slippage
A
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a. hermaphrodism. b. androgyny. c. bisexuality. d. heterosexuality.
A preoperational child would assume
a. that tall glasses hold more liquid than short glasses. b. that objects that are out of sight have ceased to exist. c. that subtraction is easier than addition. d. that problems that have not yet been solved will, in the future, be solved.
What mechanism prevents or slows some chemicals from entering the brain, while allowing others to enter?
A. A threshold B. A blood-brain barrier C. An endoplasmic wall D. A differential-drug inhibitor
What is the most common cognitive symptom of schizophrenia?
A. Obsessive concentration on a single idea B. Alternating between one personality and another C. Excessive attention to detail when discussing a topic D. Impaired understanding of abstract concepts