Jennifer has recently died in a car accident, and her medical file indicates that she has been diagnosed with schizophrenia for the past 13 years. Upon autopsy, which finding is the most likely?
a) atrophy of the Islets of Langerhans in her pancreas
b) calcifications in her liver
c) a decreased level of acetylcholine in her limbic system
d) enlarged ventricles in her brain
ANS: D, Attempts to understand schizophrenia have led to research identifying enlarged cerebral ventricles in those with the condition.
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a) seemingly unrelated features; structural or circumstantial relationships b) shared contextual or functional relationships; shared features c) structural or circumstantial relationships; seemingly unrelated features d) shared features; shared contextual or functional relationships
Research has shown cognitive behavioural therapy to be more effective than is medication for treating:
A) generalized anxiety disorder. B) major depressive disorder. C) posttraumatic stress disorder. D) insomnia.
The term "operant" is used for Thorndike's procedure because
a. the experimenter performs a kind of operation on the participant. b. technical operations are part of the procedure. c. the eliciting stimulus elicits or operates on the response. d. the response operates on the environment to produce the eliciting stimulus. e. the environment becomes an operator for behavior.
The concept that tendencies which are biological, genetic, or psychological in origin may cause the development of a mental disorder would BEST be understood by using which of the following models?
A. Stress management model B. Psychoneuroimmunology model C. Diathesis-stress model D. Stress-inoculation model