In addition to the specific criteria for major depressive disorder to be diagnosed,
two other conditions must be met, according to DSM-IV. Which of these is one of them?
(a) hallucinations, such as the person hears voices
(b) the symptoms are not better explained by bereavement, unless they are too
long or severe
(c) loss of contact with reality
(d) the symptoms must come on slowly
(e) none of the above
B
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A) pain. B) obesity. C) repressed memories. D) menopause.
You are a police officer that just pulled over a male, age 22 . Compared to the male, age 30, who you pulled over yesterday, this 22-year-old male is more likely to be:
a. driving under the speed limit. b. driving while intoxicated. c. listening to music so loud that he cannot hear sirens or other warnings. d. not be wearing his seatbelt.
According to Case's neo-Piagetian theory, if Maribelle has begun to tell coherent stories with a main plot and several subplots, she is most likely age
A) 4 to 6. B) 7 to 9. C) 9 to 11. D) 12 to 14.
A major strength of the natural, or quasi-, experiment is that it permits
A) study of relationships between variables. B) inferences about cause-and-effect relationships. C) generalization of experimental findings to the real world. D) study of many real-world conditions that cannot be experimentally manipulated.