Which statement about alcohol abuse disorders and other psychological disorders is accurate?
A) Since alcohol has a negative effect on neurotransmitters, it is extremely rare for people with
schizophrenia to become alcohol or drug dependent.
B) The personality disorder most often associated with alcohol abuse is obsessive-compulsive
personality disorder.
C) Since alcohol has an anti-anxiety effect, most of the people who are alcohol dependent and have
another disorder suffer from generalized anxiety disorder.
D) The personality disorder most often associated with alcohol abuse is antisocial personality disorder.
D
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Which statement summarizing research on whether training working memory skills improves cognitive performance on non–memory-related tasks is TRUE?
A) Over 50 years of research has clearly demonstrated that training working memory skills increases overall cognitive performance. B) Training working memory skills has not been shown to increase cognitive performance on non–memory-related tasks. C) More research is needed to determine if enhancing working memory leads to increased cognitive performance on non–memory-related tasks. D) Efforts to study this research question have been thwarted by the fact that working memory skills cannot be improved with training.
The reason for including a placebo group in a drug study is to control for:
a. experimenter bias. b. physiological effects of the drug. c. participants' expectations of change. d. the experimenter being blind.
An ongoing research study in Finland is focusing on children of mothers with schizophrenia who were adopted into other families. To date, researchers have determined that ____% of these children have developed schizophrenia or other psychotic disorders.
A. 1 B. 5 C. 10 D. 25
From the twentieth week until birth,
A) brain weight increases tenfold. B) glial cells decrease at a rapid rate. C) the fetus is viable. D) brain growth slows.