Describe two examples of recessive genetic disorders
What will be an ideal response?
Recessive disorders: Sickle-cell anemia is a recessive disorder, since both parents must contribute a recessive allele for the disorder in order for the offspring to display the problem. In this disorder, the red blood cells become sickle-shaped which allows less oxygen to be carried in the body. This may impair cognitive abilities. Tay-Sachs disease is another recessive disorder, again, since both parents must contribute a recessive allele for the disease. It causes the central nervous system to degenerate with a loss in sensory abilities, mental ability, and then death by around age 5.
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Which of the following statements accurately characterizes the moral management approach to treating the physical and mental disorders of mentally ill patients?
A. Patients would be given the choice between two different types of medications. B. Patients could select the frequency and duration of rehabilitative treatment. C. Patients attended spiritual discussions and engaged in manual labor tasks. D. Patients were required to attend weekly group therapy sessions.
Token economies are used as a means of ____
a. ?observational learning b. ?classical conditioning c. ?operant conditioning d. ?latent learning
Protein structures on the postsynaptic neuron that have recognition sites on the extracellular side and G proteins on the intracellular side are known as a. ionotropic receptors
b. metabotropic receptors. c. autoreceptors. d. transporter molecules.
Changes in the magnitude of a response to environmental stimuli is typical in
A. instinctive behaviors. B. reflexes. C. associative learning. D. non-associative learning.