What is the most likely relationship between genetics and eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa?
a. There is no evidence for a genetic contribution to eating disorders
b. Genes probably contribute a great deal to bulimia nervosa, but not to anorexia nervosa.
c. Some studies have identified a genetic contribution, but others have found no evidence of such a factor.
d. Eating disorders can be accounted for almost entirely by genetic influences.
c
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a. "When an Adaptive Response Becomes Maladaptive" b. "Fight or Flight: Major Physiological Changes Over Time" c. "Slowly Eroding: Elements of the Stress Response Lost to Evolution Over Time" d. "How Speed, Toxins, and Pollution are Destroying the Fight-or-Flight Response"
____ approaches to treatment view child psychopathology as the result of social or environmental circumstances that are imposed on the child and interfere with his or her capacity for personal growth and adaptive functioning
a. Psychodynamic b. Client-centered c. Cognitive-behavioral d. Family
Both Prader-Willi and Angelman syndromes are ____
a. inherited conditions b. associated with an involuntary urge to eat c. believed to be spontaneous genetic birth defects that occur around the time of conception d. none of these
Which of the following does the text indicate as the reason that the term neurosis was dropped from the DSM-III and the DSM-IV?
a. The term neurosis was too Freudian a concept. b. The term neurosis was too imprecise a concept. c. The term neurosis reduced the diagnostic validity of the classification system. d. The lay public incorrectly associated the term neurosis with anxiety.