The American Psychiatric Association prefers the term mental or psychiatric illness
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Answer: FALSE
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One function of the soma is to
a. secrete transmitter substances. b. receive messages from other neurons. c. carry messages to the dendrites. d. transmit messages toward the cell body. e. speed up the transmission of neural messages.
_____ Prior knowledge in a domain is always an advantage when it comes to learning new domain information
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Suppose Ann and her sister are both going to have a baby. Ann is age 28; her sister is age 45. Generalizing from statistics noted in the text, you would know that Ann's probability of having a child with Down syndrome are:
a. about the same as her sister's b. slightly greater than her sister's c. slightly less than her sister's d. more than 10 times less than her sister's
Most behavioral characteristics and psychological disorders are:
a. Polygenic b. Recessive c. Dominant d. X-linked