Suppose Two People Experience the Same Stressful Events, and as a Result

question 29

Multiple Choice

Suppose two people experience the same stressful events, and as a result of the experience, one person develops an affective disorder while the second person shows no ill effects. The diathesis-stress model would most likely explain this by saying that the

• A)person who developed the disorder was older than the other person.
• B)disordered person must be female and the other person male.
• C)two people had different predispositions for the disorder and had likelyexperienced different levels of stress during past encounters with similar stimuli.
• D)person who developed the disorder had a gene that guaranteed the disorder would develop at some point (even without any stress).

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