last minute

Question 1

Piaget believed that children are “spontaneous liars” and considered their false statements to be natural and harmless until about:

a. Age 3 or 4
b. Age 4 or 5
c. Age 5 or 6
d. Age 7 or 8

Answer 1

d. age 7 or 8

Question 2

General symptoms that may accompany the third stage of Alzheimer’s Dementia include

a. apathy and emotional blunting.
b. depression and anomia.
c. irritability and anger.
d. paranoia and labile mood.

Answer 2

a. apathy and emotional blunting

Question 3

. The responses of interviewees, when using a structured interview, are evaluated by:

a. interviewer subjectivity
b. “utility analysis”
c. pre-specified criteria
d. “subject matter experts” consensus

Answer 3

c. pre specified criteria

Question 4

Brain imaging techniques have identified abnormalities in which areas among people with Tourette Syndrome, Autistic Disorder, and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?

a. frontal lobes and thalamus
b. frontal lobes and basal ganglia
c. parietal lobes and amygdala
d. parietal lobes and thalamus

Answer 4

b. frontal lobes and basal ganglia

Question 5

The leading cause of infant mortality is:

a. respiratory distress
b. sudden infant death syndrome
c. homicide
d. congenital malformations

Answer 5

d. congenital malformations

Question 6

Anosognosia is most often due to damage to the:

a. corpus callosum
b. left temporal lobe
c. right parietal lobe
d. occipital lobe

Answer 6

c. right parietal lobe

Question 7

According to Beck, depression is caused by

a. biochemical factors.
b. early parental rejection.
c. dysfunctional automatic thoughts.
d. dysfunctional irrational thoughts.

Answer 7

c. dysfunctional automatic thoughts

Question 8

A patient with Alzheimer’s disease would be likely to obtain the lowest scores on which of the following factor indexes on the WAIS-III?

a. perceptual organization and processing speed
b. working memory and perceptual organization
c. working memory and processing speed
d. verbal comprehension and processing speed

Answer 8

a. perceptual organization and processing speed

Question 9

In a factor analysis, an eigenvalue corresponds to

a. the number of latent variables.
b. the strength of the relationship between factors.
c. the level of significance of the factor analysis.
d. the explained variance of one of the factors.

Answer 9

d. the explained variance of one of the factors.

Question 10

Research investigating the brain areas that may be linked to the symptoms of ADHD suggests that degree of impulsivity is associated with the

a. size of the caudate nucleus.
b. extent of neural abnormalities in the thalamus.
c. extent of structural abnormality of the corpus callosum.
d. size of the RAS.

Answer 10

a. size of the caudate nucleus