Indira,a third-grade teacher,frequently suffers from dizziness,heart palpitations,and fatigue.She is also continually agitated and unable to relax outside the classroom,but she cannot pinpoint a reason for her problems.Her behavior is most indicative of

A) social anxiety disorder.
B) a phobia.
C) obsessive-compulsive disorder.
D) generalized anxiety disorder.

At about age 12, a girl comes to her mother and says that she is going through a great deal of bodily changes. Most likely the girl is talking about __________

A) diminishment of the primary sex characteristics.
B) development of secondary sex characteristics.
C) changes in the tertiary sex characteristics.
D) getting too skinny.

In her research,Professor Kyoto seeks to identify circumstances in which confirmation bias is especially likely to impede effective problem solving.Professor Kyoto is focused on research on

A) memory.
B) development.
C) personality.
D) cognition.

Correlations between mood disorders and a variety of structural abnormalities in the brain suggest that reduced volume in the ____ is related to depression.

A) amygdala
B) hypothalamus
C) hippocampus
D) thalamus

Clean water,immunizations,and nourishing food have all had a dramatic impact on:

A) infant and child mortality.
B) maternal education levels.
C) population control.
D) marriage rates.

Mark has been suffering from both depression and anxiety and would very much like to receive psychotherapy. However, he lives in a remote part of Montana, and the nearest clinician is more than 3 hours away, making face-to-face therapy impractical. Mark could probably benefit from which recent development in provision of therapy?

A) Internet-based therapy
B) Fax-based psychoanalysis
C) self-guided hypnosis
D) virtual-reality therapy