List and describe any two anxiety disorders. Give two models' viewpoints on how these disorders develop
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* Phobias are intense, excessive fears of activities, objects, or situations.
* Panic disorder is the most severe of the anxiety disorders and is characterized by an intense physiological arousal not related to a specific stimulus.
* Generalized anxiety disorder is a chronically high level of anxiety that is not attached to a specific stimulus.
* Obsessive-compulsive disorder is characterized by repetitive, irrational, intrusive thoughts, impulses, or images and irresistible impulses to engage repeatedly in some act.
*Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a reaction to a traumatic or life-threatening situation that is characterized by repeated re-experience of the traumatic event, avoidance of reminders of the situation, emotional numbness, and increased arousal.
* The response should also select two of the following: the medical, psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive, or sociocultural models to explain the development of the disorders. (See Study Chart: Anxiety Disorders, p. 496.)
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a. Early pubertal onset and weight increases were particularly strong predictors of negative body image and depression among African American girls. b. Mexican girls become somewhat more depressed as they go through puberty, whereas Mexican boys experience an improved sense of body image and well-being. c. Early pubertal onset and weight increases were not particularly strong predictors of negative body image and depression among European American girls. d. Mexican boys become somewhat more depressed as they go through puberty, whereas Mexican girls experience an improved sense of body image and well-being.
How can researchers determine the heritability of a trait?
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Rubbing genitals together with another person for sexual pleasure is known as ____
a. interfemoral intercourse c. buttockry b. "hand-balling" d. tribadism
Describe psychoanalysis. Include information about its theoretical background, how it seeks to help people, its key concepts, and an evaluation of its effectiveness
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