A. acting ability of the pseudo-patients
B. generally low quality of training of hospital staff members
C. effects of the labeling and context
D. fact that pseudo-patients were so heavily drugged
Related Mcqs:
- Adopted children’s similarity to their biological parents is generally attributed to_____________; adopted children’s similarity to their adoptive parents is generally attributed to____________________.
A. heredity; the environment
B. the environment; heredity
C. the environment; the environment
D. heredity; heredity - Five-year-old David watches as you pour water from a short, wide glass into a tall, narrow one. He says there is now more water than before. This response demonstrates that:
A. David understands the concept of conservation
B. David does not understand the concept of conversion
C. David cognitive development is “behind” for his age
D. both b and c are the case - Because there is considerable overlap among the types of schizophrenia, and because patterns of behavior shift over time, many patients are simply classified as suffering from______schizophrenia.
A. borderline
B. atypical
C. mixed
D. undifferentiated - A chest implant that intermittently stimulates the vagus nerve has been used to treat some patients with:
A. bulimia
B. anxiety disorders
C. schizophrenia
D. chronic depression - What is an example of a positive symptom in patients with schizophrenia?
A. Impaired social skills
B. Affective flattening (lack of expression or emotion)
C. Alogia (loss of speech)
D. Hallucinations - Without medical attention approximately how many percent of bipolar patients commit suicide?
A. Less than 5 percent
B. 30 – 35 percent
C. 50 percent
D. 15 – 20 percent - Which drug has provided the most help to schizophrenia patients experiencing auditory hallucinations and paranoia?
A. Ativan
B. Xanax
C. Thorazine
D. lithium - Which form of therapy would most likely help depressed patients by teaching them how to resolve disagreements with their friends?
A. humanistic therapy
B. interpersonal psychotherapy
C. psychoanalysis
D. cognitive therapy - Patients’ negative expectations about the outcome of a surgical procedure can increase their postoperative experience of pain. This best illustrate the importance of:
A. transduction
B. difference thresholds
C. sensory adaption
D. top-down processing - At the first psychological clinic, the patients were mostly which of the following?
A. Children with school-related problems
B. Adults with personality disorders
C. Children and adults with depression
D. Couples experiencing relationship problems
