A woman diagnosed with schizophrenia announces that she has a plan to end poverty and homelessness in the world and that the Pope has given her secret instructions on how this can be accomplished. Her thinking is indicative of a delusion of
a. persecution
b. thought insertion.
c. grandeur.
d. reference.
c
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A(n) occurs when a person is physically present but unable to participate in any meaningful way in family interactions, as when a person is in a coma or in late stages of Alzheimer's disease
a. living death b. fugue state c. ambiguous loss d. stigmatized loss
Ectoderm is to endoderm as a. heterozygous is to homozygous. b. fraternal is to identical
c. outer is to inner. d. bone is to muscle.
Which of the following statements is true of approach-approach conflicts?
A) They are the most stressful type of conflicts. B) Both goals involved in these conflicts are attainable. C) Both goals in these conflicts are negative. D) They involve several alternative courses to resolve conflicts, each with both positive and negative aspects.
Which of the following is NOT true regarding critics of the medical model of abnormal behavior?
a. The disease analogy continues to be useful. b. A particularly vocal critic is Thomas Szasz. c. The medical model's disease analogy converts moral and social questions about what is acceptable behavior into medical questions. d. Abnormal behavior usually involves a deviation from social norms rather than an illness.