A Canadian epidemiologist stated in 2008 that the lifetime prevalence of depression exceeds _____ and may be as high as _____.
a) 15; 22
b) 22; 31
c) 25; 42
d) 20; 50
Question 2In which of the following age groups is depression known to affect males and females approximately equally?
a) pre-adolescence
b) adolescence
c) adulthood
d) elderly
Question 3Research on thought listing and test anxiety by Blankstein, Flett, and associates indicates that test anxious students, relative to non-test anxious students:
a) Have a greater frequency of negative thoughts about themselves
b) Have a greater frequency of positive thoughts about themselves
c) Have a greater frequency of negative thoughts about their professors
d) Have a greater frequency of thoughts overall, and this serves to distract them
Question 4Which of the following people is least likely to have major depression?
a) A 45-year-old wealthy woman
b) A 35-year-old unemployed man
c) A 20-year-old wealthy man
d) A 19-year-old woman who has had one episode of depression in the past
Question 5Dr. Less collected data showing that depressed people were less interested in interacting with non-depressed people. She concluded that their depression had caused them to withdraw from people.
However, later research showed that depressed people had not interacted with non-depressed people even before they became depressed. Dr. Less failed to consider ___________ problems.
a) falsifiability
b) directionality
c) third-variable
d) internal validity
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