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   After the mass suicides related to the cults at Jonestown, people tended to blame the victims and accuse them of being psychologically unstable or deranged. Social psychologists are more likely to explain these mass suicides as being due to

What differentiates atypical antipsychotic medications from first-generation or typical antipsychotic medications?

Social and personality psychologists share which common goal?

Medications that treat ADHD exert their actions primarily in what brain region?

During your mental status exam of a 16 year-old female, you identify  irritability, intense and sometimes inappropriate facial expressions but they appear to coincide with her feelings. This best describes the patient’s:

A mother brings in her 8-year-old son for a psychiatric follow-up visit with the PMHNP. This is the fourth visit the PMHNP has had with the client, his mother, and his younger sister, now 7-8 months old. You notice that the sister has a decrease in head growth, along with stereotypic motions of the hands, often licking and slapping. She has also lost her language skills. What medical condition do you suspect she has?

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When taking a history for an elderly patient, it is OK to leave out sexual history.

statistics summarizes characteristics of sample data. statistics makes generalizations about populations.

A is a numerical measurement that describes some characteristic of a sample. A is a numerical measurement that describes some characteristic of a population.