Genetic studies of families with members who have been diagnosed with schizophrenia have
yielded results that support all but which of the following results?
a. The probability of developing schizophrenia is higher for an individual whose siblings
have been diagnosed with the disorder.
b. The probability of developing schizophrenia increases with the number of relatives who
are diagnosed with the disorder.
c. Concordance rates are higher in monozygotic than dizygotic twins.
d. Specific genetic aberrations or defects have been found which are believed to be the
cause of the high concordance rates between family members with schizophrenia.
e. The closer the relation to the individual who has schizophrenia (e.g., first degree as
compared to second degree relatives), the greater the probability of developing the
disorder.
D
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a. ABX owed its high level of cohesiveness to the absence of cliques within the group. b. ABX was so cohesive that all the group members were tied to the group by at least one strong relationship. c. Individuals who occupied central positions in subgroups within the group tended to be less positive toward the overall group. d. Overall popularity, as indicated by indegree centrality, predicted both satisfaction with the group and a sense of belong.
Your textbook discusses research about the relationship between depression and performance on tasks involving the phonological loop. This research showed that
a. people with depression performed significantly worse than people without depression. b. people with depression actually performed significantly better than people with depression. c. there was no difference in the performance of the two groups, once the researchers corrected for the fact that the depressed group had lower vocabulary skills. d. people with depression tended to transform the stimuli into visual patterns that activated the visuospatial sketchpad
DSM-5, an updated version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, was published in
a. 1994. b. 2000. c. 2002. d. 2013.
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A. olfactory B. gustatory C. auditory D. vestibular