A counsellor reads Malik's mood diary covering the past year. It records several long periods of low mood and loss of interest, with his usual mood between them. It contains no periods of unusually elevated mood, energy or activity.
Which statement correctly interprets Malik's record?
It supports bipolar depression because returning to his usual mood provides the higher mood phase.
It does not fit unipolar depression because that condition involves a single low period only.
It cannot distinguish the conditions because manic periods may occur in either form of depression.
It supports unipolar depression because low periods recur without any manic periods.
144 exam-style questions on OCR GCSE Psychology 3.2 Theories/Explanations, covering 3.2.1 Clinical characteristics of schizophrenia, 3.2.2 Key statistics of schizophrenia, 3.2.3 Dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia, 3.2.4 Brain structure and function in schizophrenia; criticisms, 3.2.5 Social drift theory of schizophrenia, 3.2.6 Schizophrenia research study: Daniel et al. (1991), 3.2.7 Clinical characteristics of clinical depression, 3.2.8 Key statistics of clinical depression, 3.2.9 Social rank theory of clinical depression, 3.2.10 ABC Model of clinical depression, and 3.2.11 Clinical Depression research study: Tandoc et al. (2015). Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.