Shonagh has terrible, intrusive thoughts that cause great anxiety
She found that if she begins counting, the anxiety lessens. Unfortunately, now she finds herself in a vicious cycle of feeling terribly anxious and then counting, all day long. Shonagh would likely be diagnosed with _____ with the anxiety-provoking thoughts labeled as the _____ and the counting labeled as the _____.
Fill in the blank with correct word
Answer: obsessive-compulsive disorder; obsessions; compulsion
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Tyrone has serious mental health problems as a teenager. It could be that he was part of which one of the following groups during middle childhood?
a. Aggressive children b. Withdrawn children c. Aggressive-withdrawn children d. Aggressive-rejected children
The ability to reproduce unusually sharp and detailed images of something you have seen is known as ______
a. flashbulb memory c. spatial awareness b. a mnemonic d. eidetic imagery
Children have been found to use syntax to give them cues about word meaning. This is called syntactical ______
A) processing. B) bootstrapping. C) rules of discourse. D) overregularization.
According to Ernest Borneman, the ________ of an infant is the first single erogenous zone of sexual development.
A. mouth B. anus C. skin D. genitalia