Jill is constantly worried that she will get sick. Although she feels fine now and believes that she is healthy, she still worries endlessly about developing a serious illness. Most likely Jill would be diagnosed with

a. Generalized anxiety disorder.
b. Illness anxiety disorder

c. a specific phobia of germs.
d. Body dysmorphic disorder.

b

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When researchers investigated the organization of long-term memory, they found that ________

a. it must be linked to sound, since users of sign language don't have "tip-of-the-tongue" states. b. verbal information is indexed semantically, and not by sound or form. c. semantic categories help organize memories involving words and concepts. d. the organization is based on human physiology, and so culture has few effects on retrieval.

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Last night the news reported a sad case of a young man who committed suicide by jumping from a building while a crowd chanted "Jump, jump." The television station wants a social psychologist to comment on this tragedy

The psychologist's comments will most likely point to a) support for Freud's notion of thanatos. b) a tendency for suicides to occur in front of large crowds. c) the tendency for people who cannot be identified to engage in negative behavior because of decreased responsibility. d) the ease with which a large crowd was able to empathize with the plight of a man who was at the depths of depression.

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