Explain why the duration of a person's symptoms is important.
What will be an ideal response?
The duration of a person's symptoms is important because mental disorders are defined in terms of persistent maladaptive behaviors. Many unusual behaviors and inexplicable experiences are short lived; if we ignore them, they go away. Some forms of problematic behavior are not transient, and they eventually interfere with the person's social and occupational functioning.
Psychology
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
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In recent years, the difference in intelligence scores between blacks and whites has ______
a. decreased c. not changed b. fluctuated wildly d. increased
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