Recovery from Substance/medication-Induced Neurocognitive Disorder Is More Likely When People

question 117

Multiple Choice

 Recovery from substance/medication-induced neurocognitive disorder is more likely when people

• A) have been using alcohol or anti-anxiety medications instead of cocaine and methamphetamine.
• B) begin abstaining before the age of 30 years.
• C) begin abstaining before the age of 50 years.
• D) experience milder withdrawal syndromes after abstaining from their drug of choice.

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Definitions:

Primacy Effect

The tendency to recall the first items in a sequence more readily than the middle items.

Overall Impression

The sum of thoughts, feelings, or attitudes someone forms about an entity (person, place, or thing) based on comprehensive or general observation.

Self-Serving Bias

The tendency to attribute one’s successes to dispositional causes and one’s failures to situational causes.

Dispositional Attribution

Attributing a behavior to some internal cause, such as a personal trait, motive, or attitude; an internal attribution.