Identify and describe methods to prevent anxiety disorders
What will be an ideal response?
Student responses should include
- family factors may contribute to anxiety disorders, especially overcontrolling, perfectionist, overprotective, rejecting, and demanding parents
- parents may also model anxiety-based responses or induce anxiety by maltreating their children
- people can learn aspects of fear and anxiety through direct experience, information transfer, or reinforcement of fear of strangers or other stimuli
- preventing anxiety involves building ability to control situations that might lead to anxiety, education about dangerous and non-dangerous situations, changing negative thoughts, coping better with stress, and practicing skills in real-life situations
You might also like to view...
Compare and contrast the functions and characteristics of the endocrine system
What will be an ideal response?
Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1. Differences in intelligence scores among racial groups probably are due to environmental factors. 2. As the percentage of European genes in an African American's genome increases, intelligence scores tend to increase. 3. Children who were breast-fed tend to have higher IQ scores than children who were not breast-fed. 4. Cognitive performance can be enhanced by stimulants. 5. Adderall is a mixture of amphetamine salts.
Researchers have found it difficult to decipher the effects of individual drugs on prenatal
development. Women may use more than one drug, have poor nutritional habits and lack good prenatal care. In additional, there are ethical constraints on the types of research that can be conducted. Therefore, information on the effects of drugs on prenatal development is a. experimental. b. critical. c. hypothetical. d. correlational.
Which theory of color vision is based on the idea of different types of cones to detect different wavelengths of light?
A. Trichromatic theory B. Opponent-process theory C. Primary color theory D. Chromatic process theory