Describe the relationship between obsessive-compulsive disorder and Tourette's syndrome

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Answer: Family studies have found that OCD is associated with Tourette's syndrome, which is characterized by muscular and vocal tics: facial grimaces, squatting, pacing, twirling, barking, sniffing, coughing, grunting, or repeating specific words (especially vulgarities). Patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder had tics and that many patients with Tourette's syndrome showed obsessions and compulsions. A family association between OCD and tic disorders suggests the two disorders are produced by the same underlying genotype.

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a. unconscious conflicts threaten to rise to the surface of conscious awareness. b. a person engages in negative thinking. c. there is incongruence between a person's self-concept and reality. d. a person is lacking in self-control.

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Children who encourage each other to act in socially deviant ways have likely been encouraged to do so by which of the following processes?

a. peer contagion b. peer punishment c. hazing d. peer rejection

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Alterations between elation and sadness are to __________ as sadness is to __________.

A. schizophrenia; major depressive disorder B. major depressive disorder; schizophrenia C. bipolar depression; major depressive disorder D. major depressive disorder; bipolar depression

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Receptors for which of the following are located deepest in the skin?

a) Hot b) Cold c) Pain d) Light touch e) Pressure

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