What is the role of a genetic counselor?
What will be an ideal response?
Genetic counseling is a medical and counseling specialty that help determine and communicate the likelihood that parents will give birth to offspring with a genetic disorder. Genetic counselors review family histories and may also use genetic screening.
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Philippe Pinel advanced the treatment of the mentally ill as a result of his efforts
a. at La Salpêtrière in Paris. c. with the Quakers. b. in Bethlehem, England. d. with William Tuke.
Which of the following does the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommend to reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)?
A. Infants should be placed to sleep in the prone position. B. Infants should be placed to sleep in a bedroom without a fan. C. Infants should be placed to sleep on their backs. D. Infants should be placed to sleep on very soft bedding.
Brewer (1988) found that memory for ______ was typically better than memory for ______.
a. actions; thoughts b. thoughts; actions c. faces; names d. names; faces
Parents warn a new babysitter that their son, Dennis, is very aggressive and mischievous. As a result of this initial expectation, the babysitter starts calling the child "Dennis the Menace" and he behaves in ways that elicit aggressive and mischievous behaviors from Dennis. This example best demonstrates the phenomenon called
A. self-serving bias. B. social conditioning. C. self-fulfilling prophecy. D. fundamental attribution error.