What are the three types of antidepressant drugs? How are they similar? How are they different?
What will be an ideal response?
* The three types of antidepressants are tricyclic antidepressants, MAO inhibitors, and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors.
* All three have some effect on serotonin, to a more limited degree on norepinephrine, and all have side effects.
* They are different in that they each work on slightly different biochemical mechanisms to affect depressive symptoms and their side effects range in severity and type.
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a. framing. b. mental set. c. the availability heuristic. d. the representativeness heuristic. e. convergent thinking.
Your dog Scooter and cat Pockets have the disturbing habit of tormenting each
other. With much patience - and a rolled-up copy of Rolling Stone - you teach them to sit nicely together in a beanbag chair. After a long weekend away, you come home to find them pawing and clawing at each other, until they notice you. Then they run and sit harmlessly in the beanbag chair. This suggests (a) generalization from one situation to another (b) the extinction was incomplete (c) the punishment fully extinguished the response that was punished (d) punishment may not suppress the response unless the punisher is around
Common anticonvulsant drugs work by suppressing what aspect of synaptic communication?
A. GABA removal B. GABA release C. GABA receptors D. GABA synthesis
How did the ancient Greeks view homosexuality?
a) Homosexuality was viewed as an accepted, pleasurable part of nature. b) Homosexuality was thought to result from conflict between emotion and reason. c) The general view was homosexuality was a sin caused by encounters with the devil. d) In general, homosexuality was thought to occur only in uncivilized societies, so it was actively discouraged.