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kaid0807

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Mrs. Yarnell was given large doses of antipsychotic medications that had side effects including twitches and dizziness. These side effects were misinterpreted as additional psychopathology. Such a mistaken diagnosis illustrates ____.
 
  a. the value of single-subject experiments
 b. a negative effect of experimentation on humans
  c. the power of endophenotypes
 d. an iatrogenic condition

Question 2

A characteristic of all endophenotypes is that they are ____.
 
  a. associated with a person's physical environment
 b. inheritable
 c. manifest only in an individual who has the disorder
  d. detectable on brain scans



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Answer to Question 1

d

Answer to Question 2

b





 

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