Your Text Cautions That, as You Read About Disorders, You

question 41

Multiple Choice

Your text cautions that, as you read about disorders, you may recognize that you experience some of the symptoms. For example, you may be extremely neat and organized, a quality that serves you well at school in particular, and wonder whether you have OCD. The point of the discussion is that

• A) having a symptom that does not cause dysfunction is not a disorder.
• B) everyone is susceptible to OCD if given enough stress.
• C) OCD is entirely controlled by genetic predispositions.
• D) all anxiety disorders are interchangeable.

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Definitions:

Double-blind Studies

Research experiments where neither the participants nor the experimenters know who is receiving the treatment versus a placebo, minimizing bias.

Placebo Effect

A beneficial effect produced by a placebo drug or treatment, which cannot be attributed to the properties of the placebo itself, and must therefore be due to the patient's belief in it.

Experimenter Effect

The influence that the experimenter's behavior, expectations, or personality may have on the outcomes of a psychological experiment.

Critical Thinking

The process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating information to reach an answer or conclusion.