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serike · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Dr. Hall found a positive correlation between depression and child abuse; depressed mothers were more likely to abuse their children. Which of the following explanations illustrates the third-variable problem?

a) Abusing one's children may cause depression.
b) Poverty may cause both depression and child abuse.
c) The relationship between depression and child abuse may apply only to women.
d) Abused children may have a predisposition to become depressed.

Question 2

In the DSM-5 appendix regarding cultural concept of distress, the syndrome that resembles certain anxiety, depressive, and somatoform disorders, and includes symptoms such as fatigue and blurring of vision is termed:

a) Brain fag.
b) Amok.
c) Dhat.
d) Koro.