One of the Problems in Trying to Understand How Psychopathology

question 92

Multiple Choice

One of the problems in trying to understand how psychopathology may be "caused" by cultural influences is that similarities in the way individuals of a culture experience psychopathology

• A) are confounded by the cross-cultural methods used to study psychopathology.
• B) may be due to the culture or to common genetic factors.
• C) cannot be understood by those outside of the culture.
• D) generally do not exist.

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Definitions:

Trichromatic Theory

A theory of color vision that proposes humans perceive color through the relative rates of response by three kinds of cones, each one sensitive to a different color.

Hair Cells

Sensory receptors located in the cochlea that detect sound waves and transduce them into signals that ultimately are processed in the brain as sound.

Hearing

The process by which sound waves are interpreted by the brain, allowing individuals to perceive sound.

Difference Threshold

The minimum noticeable difference that an individual can detect between two stimuli 50% of the time.