A. Men and women have the same chance of depression
B. Men are 3 times as likely to be depressed as women
C. Women’s depression is more serve than men’s
D. Women are about twice as likely to suffer depression
Related Mcqs:
- The psychodynamic explanation of depression is ____________?
A. Unconscious motives
B. Poor parenting
C. Chemical imbalance
D. Anger turned inward - There is a correlation between the incidence of depression and the ___________?
A. Amount of sun light
B. Highway fatalities
C. Full moon
D. Flowers in bloom - One difficulty with a purely attributional explanation of depression is that negative attributions:
A. are more characteristics of men than of women
B. are more clearly associated with mania than with depression
C. have little effect on people’s feelings of self-worth
D. may be a consequence rather than a cause of depression - Individuals who alternete between periods of depression and periods of being being manic are diagnosed as having a ___________?
A. bipolar disorder
B. conversion disorder
C. multiple personality disorder
D. generalized anxiety disorder - People who consistently exhibit_________thinking are more vulnerable to depression than others.
A. overly optimistic
B. negative, pressmistic
C. delusional
D. dysthymic - The vicious cycle of depression is often initiated by: _________?
A. stressful life experiences.
B. excessive levels of norepinephrine.
C. a breakdown in selective attention.
D. external attributions of blame. - We know that a distinction is made between positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia. What is the difference between these symptoms?
A. Negative symptoms indicate the presence of something normal, and positive symptoms indicate the absence of something usual.
B. Positive symptoms indicate the presence of some thing normal, the absence of something usual.
C. Negative symptoms indicate the presence of something unusual, and positive symptoms indicate the absence of something normal.
D. Positive symptoms indicate the presence of something unusual, and negative symptoms indicate the absence of something normal. - A person who maintains bizarre, false beliefs that have no basis in reality is said to have ___________?
A. illusions
B. compulsons
C. hallucinations
D. delusions - A major focus of cognitive therapies is to __________?
A. Expose unhealthy emotions
B. Interpret childhood events
C. Reinforce positive behavior
D. Change false beliefs - Mania is most likely to be characterized by feelings of: _____________?
A. fear
B. optimism
C. guilt
D. ambivalence
