Concerns About the Reliability and Validity of the DSM-5 Diagnoses

question 102

Multiple Choice

Concerns about the reliability and validity of the DSM-5 diagnoses are MOST likely to center on which factors?

• A) Categories based on weak research and reflecting bias (for example, gender or racial bias)
• B) Categories based on field research and reflecting bias (for example, gender or racial bias)
• C) Categories that reflect overly restrictive descriptions
• D) Categories too few in number to represent the breadth of human psychological disorders

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Definitions:

Communication Mechanism

The means or process through which information is transmitted and received among entities or individuals.

Genetic Imprinting

An occurrence in genetics where the expression of certain genes depends on whether they come from the mother or the father.

Dominance Hierarchy

A linear “pecking order” into which animals in a population may organize according to status; regulates aggressive behavior within the population.

Sexual Selection

A mode of natural selection where members of one biological sex choose mates of the other sex to mate with, and compete with members of the same sex for access to members of the opposite sex.