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1)Explain why some organizations might prefer to use variable cost rather than absorption cost as a basis for setting transfer prices? 2)Critically discuss the assertion that by focusing on the due process as the route to standard setting, the International Accounting Standard Board ensures its legitimacy

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1)Explain why some organizations might prefer to use variable cost rather than absorption cost as a basis for setting transfer prices?

2)Critically discuss the assertion that by focusing on the due process as the route to standard setting, the International Accounting Standard Board ensures its legitimacy.

3)A) How would the RDoC project explain a person’s depression? Or someone’s anxiety? What makes this approach unique from other classification systems? B) What are some positive ways in which exposure to different cultures have opened you to appreciating differences?

4) A) How were psychotropic medications discovered? What are the basic classes of these medications? B) What is the cost of mental illness to the individual and his or her family? Discuss public and internalized stigma.

5) A) What are the basic ideas behind psychoanalysis, cognitive behavioral therapy, client-centered therapy, and empirically supported therapy? How do they differ, and what do they share? B) Describe a lobotomy. Why were these discontinued?

6)A) What are the components of a biopsychosocial approach to mental illness? How do previous explanations fit into this model? B) Complete the grid below for the major mental illnesses discussed in this chapter (anxiety disorders, mood disorders, psychosis/schizophrenia, eating disorders, substance abuse disorders, ADD/ADHD, and autism)

7)A) When does everyday sadness or worry become a disorder? What is the criterion? B) What are supernatural explanations for mental illness? How do these explanations differ from somatogenic and psychogenic explanations? Be able to compare and contrast these explanations.

8) As when discussing brain stimulation therapies, the question of a cost–benefit analysis—are the benefits worth the side effects?— applies equally to medications. Are side effects worth the benefit or elevating mood or quelling anxiety?