"Suicidal ideation" refers to ____
a. mass media writing about people who kill themselves
b. ideas about ways to convince others to commit suicide
c. an individual's thoughts about suicide
d. explanations of why people commit suicide
C
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Regarding brain cells regeneration and repair, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. Constraint-induced movement therapy involves restraining a patient's good arm, which forces his or her impaired arm to be more active and increases neurogenesis in the damaged part of the brain. b. Doctors are testing a method in which drugs that speed up neurogenesis are injected into the damaged areas of the brain. c. Because of aging, a healthy 75-year-old brain has only about 75 percent of the brain cells of a healthy 25-year-old brain. d. Although the brain loses cells daily, it simultaneously grows new neurons to replace them.
The finding that encoding of survival-related information is subsequently easier to recall than other types of information is MOST consistent with which psychological perspective?
A) psychodynamic B) behavioural C) humanistic D) evolutionary
Regarding evidence for the scientific validity of dissociative identity disorder, the most accurate statement is that
A. most patients are faking. B. research suggests that faking dissociative experiences is possible. C. it is virtually impossible to fake the types of changes that occur in dissociative identity disorder. D. objective tests can always determine which patients are faking dissociative identity disorder.
Disadvantages of the emergence of manualized therapies with empirical support include
A. strengthening of the relationship or alliance between therapist and client. B. the fact that many clients have relatively simple problems that easily fit into diagnostic categories. C. restriction of clinicians to use only empirically supported treatments. D. irrefutable criteria for determining which treatments should be identified as empirically supported.