A new psychological test is able to detect anxiety in patients; it accurately identifies both the absence and presence of anxiety. This would mean that the test
A) has high false positive rates and high false negative rates.
B) has high false positive rates but low false negative rates.
C) is low in false positive rates and low in false negative rates.
D) is low in false positive rates but high in false negative rates.
C
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a. discontinuity over time. b. homotypic continuity. c. heterotypic continuity. d. intermittent continuity.
A neuroscientist finds that, as compared with civilian college students, veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan show higher activation in a certain brain area when they are shown intense, emotional pictures. This brain area is MOST likely the:
a) Hippocampus b) amygdala c) Hypothalmus d) thalmus