Jordan is a teenager who has had many different sexual partners. He is at risk for contracting
a. a psychosomatic disorder. c. anorexia nervosa.
b. a sexually transmitted disease. d. a primary sex characteristic.
b
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According to the theory of cognitive dissonance, what do people try to do?
a. Avoid situations in which they would have to make difficult decisions b. Minimize any conflict between their behavior and their attitudes c. Carefully evaluate as much evidence as possible before forming an attitude d. Convince other people to change their attitudes
Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1. Before the introduction of the medical model of psychological disorders, people believed mental illness was a result of possession by demons or a punishment from God for their wrongdoings. 2. The presence or absence of a diathesis determines if symptoms of a disease will manifest. 3. One reason the RDoC was created was in response to the criticism that the biopsychosocial factors that appear to cause psychopathology do not map neatly onto individual DSM diagnoses. 4. A new system called the Research Domain Criteria Project (RDoC) is an initiative that aims to guide the classification and understanding of mental disorders by revealing the basic processes that give rise to them. 5. The long-term goal of the RDoC is to better understand which abnormalities cause different disorders and to classify disorders based on those underlying causes, rather than on observed symptoms, which will bring the study of mental disorders in line with the study of other medical disorders.
Winston has been taking a neuroleptic drug for several years, and he now suffers from an irreversible disorder of the nervous system that involves uncontrollable, repetitive movements of the body and face. Winston probably began taking a neuroleptic drug to treat his ____, but the drug led to the disorder known as ____
a. ?schizophrenia; agranulocytosis b. ?schizophrenia; tardive dyskinesia c. ?anxiety disorder; agranulocytosis d. ?anxiety disorder; tardive dyskinesia
According to your textbook, which of the following would NOT be classified as a scheduled gradual reduction technique?
a. A person delays having the first cigarette in the morning and then tries to delay a little longer each day. b. A person gradually reduces the total number of cigarettes smoked each day. c. A person quits completely, but for just one week, then quits again, a week at a time, for as many times as necessary to make it stick. d. A person who smokes heavily one day and then goes "cold turkey" the next day, alternating every other day.