A classic symptom of PTSD is re-experiencing. Explain how this symptom presents itself in the disorder

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People with PTSD experience intrusive and recurrent memories, thoughts, or dreams about the original traumatic event. These "triggers" make people with the disorder feel as if they were re-experiencing the initial event with its accompanying fear and autonomic arousal.

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Rob and Janel have been happily married for 25 years. Based on scans of their brains, we would find that they have:

A. more calmness than anxiety about their love B. increased anxiety about the marriage breaking up C. more activity in areas of the brain that are involved in pleasure D. more activity in areas of the brain that are involved in negative emotion

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Evolutionary psychologists argue that the cognitive revolution ____.?

a. ?did not go far enough b. ?had little relevance for their work c. ?omitted the source and purpose of our information-processing capability d. ?did not go far enough and omitted the source and purpose of our information-processing capability e. ?All of the choices are correct.

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Discuss the competence-environmental press approach and how it relates to the zone of maximum comfort

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Psychology

Discuss the category of drugs known as narcotics, including their history, their effects and uses, and why these drugs are so addictive, and identify four examples of narcotic drugs; and describe and provide an example of a harm reduction strategy, and explain why this strategy is so controversial

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