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Question 1. The police go on a call of an unresponsive (but breathing) male. The male is found on a couch in his apartment. Next to the couch are 5 empty bottles of beer along with a half empty bottle of tranquilizers. No suicide note is found. The person in the apartment below says the man seems to not sleep much and is walking around a lot late at night. What do you think is going on?

Question 2. People with phobias are normally just exaggerating what is a normal fear to get attention. What do you think of that comment?

Question 3. A police officer has seen some extra bad things recently. He notices he is waking up at night to bizarre dreams about some of those things. He also notices he is getting very angry at little things. He should simply drink a beer or 2 before going to bed and suck it up. Is this good advice? Why do you think that?

Question 4. Doctors have pretty much figured out what causes psychotic disorders. Is this true? Explain.

Question 5. A police officer is on a traffic stop. After clearing the stop a pedestrian walks up to him and asks to be taken to the hospital as he is out of his medication. As the officer talks to the person he says the stop signs are talking to him and telling him to step in front of traffic and end it all. What should the officer do?

Question 6. This is a very helpful textbook and Jeff appears to know all the answers. Therefore when I am done with this class I will have no difficulties diagnosing psychological disorders. What do you think about this statement?