Dan's various medical complaints and hospital stays finally led him to psychiatrist
After a thorough medical and psychological evaluation, the twenty-eight-year-old teacher and father of two was diagnosed with both depression and somatization disorder. What is atypical about this case summary?
a. Such diagnoses are usually made in adolescence.
b. Somatization disorder is seen much more commonly in women.
c. Somatization disorder and depression are rarely comorbid disorders.
d. It is rare for an individual with somatization disorder to marry and have children.
b. Somatization disorder is seen much more commonly in women.
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a. striving for superiority. c. the masculine protest. b. organismic valuing process. d. the entropy principle.
When people make multiple demands upon themselves (when they must complete or persist at multiple tasks), their capacity for change (their willpower) sometimes seems to get "used up." Research shows that in fact, ____
a. this effect is solely due to fatigue b. this effect is solely due to emotions c. this effect is solely due to attitudes about the tasks d. willpower really does seem to get depleted; it appears that only so much willpower is available to people at a time