Sam is a 16-year-old adolescent who feels that he is unable to be an adult, despite the fact that he's nearly 6 feet, 3 inches tall and has grown a beard
Although he led a "normal" childhood, when he was about 11 he began to get into frequent fights at school and has had trouble with the law ten times. According to Moffitt, Sam would be categorized as having
a) life-course persistent conduct problems.
b) adolescence-limited conduct problems.
c) antisocial development disorder.
d) explosive personality disorder.
b
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The body's arousal response to an external threat is
(a) usually unnecessary (b) evolutionarily fitness increasing (c) contrary to what sociobiologists would expect (d) none of the above
An epidemiologist is conducting research on patients with the diagnosis
of schizophrenia. The research is designed to determine what problems occur at elevated rates among people with this diagnosis. When the data are analyzed, what will they show occurs at higher rates among people with schizophrenia compared to the general population? a) anorexia b) suicide attempts c) mental retardation d) loss of immunological functioning
A group of researchers studied a smoking cessation program on TV by tracking smoking before a the program and then at several points over the next year. This design involved
a. a static-group comparison design. b. an interrupted time series design. c. a nonequivalent control group design. d. a one-group pretest-posttest design.
Describe schizophrenia using the behavioral model.
What will be an ideal response?