Your 17-year-old son didn't start showing signs of puberty until recently, and still looks like he is 14 years old. What challenges do you face as a parent of a late-maturing male?
a. He is likely to engage in early sexual behavior.
b. He is likely to spend too much time studying.
c. He is likely to be a homebody and prefers to stay at home rather than go out on the weekends.
d. He is likely to have difficulties with alcohol use and delinquency.
D. He is more likely to have difficulties with alcohol and delinquency.
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A person who shows psychotic depression that involves mood-congruent thinking
a. is diagnosed as having "double depression." b. usually responds rapidly to anti-depressant medications. c. rarely shows the symptoms of melancholia. d. has a poorer prognosis than others with major depression.
The type of psychological disorder that attracted Sigmund Freud to the study of psychological factors in abnormal behavior would now be called
a. dissociative amnesia. b. dissociative identity disorder. c. hypochondriasis. d. schizophrenia. e. functional neurological symptom disorder.