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Seasonal affective disorder is:

A) common during the late summer, leading some to speculate that it may be associated with allergic responses to pollen, such as ragweed
B) more frequent during the summer, when it is hot
C) more frequent during the winter months, because of the lack of sunlight
D) more frequent during the winter months, because of the cold

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Question 62

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The book that most psychologists refer to when determining if a list of symptoms constitutes a psychological disorder is known as:

A) The APA Symptom Checklist
B) Drug and Standard Methods for Interpreting Varieties of Therapeutic Treatment
C) The Handbook of Mental Illness
D) The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Version Four) .

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Question 63

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My mother displays _____ whenever she looks at or thinks about a ship. She swears that if she gets on one, it will sink and she will die. Just thinking about being on a ship causes her great anxiety. Most likely, she can be diagnosed with:

My girlfriend has, for more than two years, suffered from intermittent bouts of major depression. During and between bouts of major depression, she questions whether she is capable of doing things (e.g., math problems) and rarely feels like doing anything. She definitely does not think she is worth anything. You are her therapist. What do you classify her as having?

Who conducted a study whereby he and seven other individuals pretended to be schizophrenic?

Research suggests that the best predictor of whether someone will become an alcoholic is:

What percent of school-aged children have ADHD?

The mechanisms by which a depressed person transforms neutral or positive information in a depressive direction are known as

The type of traumatic event that is most likely to trigger PTSD would be:

From an evolutionary perspective, psychopathology:

If a person is an alcoholic, it is likely that:

Bipolar disorder is thought to have a biological component since _____ of individuals with bipolar disorder have a family history of some mood disorder.

My cousin is very high in sensitivity to rejection. He was raised in disruptive, hostile, and negative home environment, in which his parents divorced after a protracted and emotionally volatile period of time. It is likely that my cousin is vulnerable to

The causes of an individual's abnormal behavior require the determination of:

Which of the following involves significant aspects of experience that are kept separate and distinct in memory and consciousness?

Axis _____ of the DSM-IV refers to a person's clinical syndromes, the patient's current condition.

The family systems model considers the family as a whole as well as the marital subsystem. The marital subsystem refers to the relationship between:

According to your textbook, the percent of patients who remained well for 15 years following an initial major depressive episode is about:

Which of these observations were made in the study "On Being Sane In Insane Places?"

The study that investigated the role of psychologically damaging life events on brain changes involved separating monkeys from their mothers for prolonged periods of time. It was found that there were: