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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How often does ECT have a significant impact?
(a) 100 percent of the time.
(b) 30 to 50 percent of the time.
(c) 15 to 20 percent of the time.
(d) 75 to 90 percent of the time.

2. What percent of depressed people commit suicide as a result?
(a) Eight to twleve.
(b) Ten to twenty.
(c) Twenty-five to thirty.
(d) Two to four.

3. What type of drug is heroine?
(a) Hallucinogens.
(b) Benzos.
(c) Antidepressants.
(d) Opiates.

4. How does male depression manifest itself many times?
(a) With dispair.
(b) With violence.
(c) With a feeling of increased intelligence.
(d) With a sense of hunger.

5. What depression model suggests that depression is sadness-feelings everyone has felt before, only on a more intense level?
(a) Bargaining.
(b) Dimensional.
(c) Categorical.
(d) Behavioral.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Bert Hellinger from?

2. What disease is often a precursor to senility and Alzheimer's?

3. In the offspring of depressed mothers, earliest childhood depression is found in children as young as what age?

4. Myrna Weissman is from what school?

5. How often do patients usually meet with their therapists during psychoanalysis?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to the text, why do depression medications work so well?

2. What role do diet and exercise play in treating depression?

3. Why would it make evolutionary sense for women to be sensitive to loss?

4. Why are SSRIs the most popular type of antidepressant?

5. How does Solomon use a metaphor about finding a hole in the ozone layer to finding depression among the indigent Americans?

6. What is correlations between severity of depression and likelihood of suicide?

7. How does the brain adapt to change?

8. What is Angel's only source of happiness?

9. How does hypnosis help treat depression?

10. Why does Solomon wish to end his life passively?

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