Comparisons of Voluntary and Involuntary Admissions Have Found That the Primary

question 32

Multiple Choice

Comparisons of voluntary and involuntary admissions have found that the primary diagnosis for most involuntary patients to be

• A) dissociative disorder.
• B) personality disorder.
• C) psychotic disorder.
• D) depressive disorder.
• E) anxiety disorder.

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Definitions:

Heuristics

Mental shortcuts, or rules of thumb, that are used for making judgments and decisions.

Sleeper Effect

A delayed increase in the effect of a message that follows a period of discounting or ignoring the message.

Primacy Effect

The phenomenon that the first items presented in a series are more likely to be remembered than items in the middle.

Moderate Alcohol Consumption

The intake of alcoholic beverages within limits considered to have minimal health risk, often defined differently across cultures and guidelines.