After her long-time boyfriend "dumped" her for another girl, Ana became enraged and only thought of revenge
Although Ana had been an excellent student, she no longer seemed to take interest in her studies and told her friends that it didn't matter whether she took the college entrance exam or not. She wouldn't go out with her friends anymore or even respond to her best friends' texts. Her parents said she just stayed in her room and did not seem to have any purpose in life anymore. These factors were warning signs for
a. the emergence of a delusional disorder.
b. the development of a dissociative identity disorder.
c. chronic hypomania.
d. a suicide attempt.
ANSWER: d
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Several middle-school girls watch their classmates, Jon and Jason, engage in a rough-and-tumble wrestling match. The attention of the girls seems to intensify the boys' play. A psychologist trained in the functionalist school would wonder:
a. What are the most basic elements of the boys' behavior? b. Do these boys have smaller head bumps devoted to "cautiousness" than most boys? c. What is the purpose of rough-and-tumble play in the adaptive changes of early adolescence? d. Did these boys experience childhood traumas that unconsciously cause aggression?