What impact does avoidance in social anxiety disorders have on the normal developmental trajectory of a child as he or she matures?

What will be an ideal response?


Because social anxiety disorder is a chronic condition, its impact becomes more pervasive and creates significantly more dysfunction with age. Children with this disorder avoid social encounters and are unlikely to learn appropriate social behaviors such as playing, making friends, and interacting in a socially appropriate way.

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Yen is Chinese. His mother shared with his entire family that he did not behave that day in preschool. By sharing Yen's misbehavior with the family, Yen's mother intends to make him __________.

A. regain his self-esteem B. come up with a positive response C. feel guilty or ashamed D. forget the misdeed

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The rule of the Wason four-card problem is, "If there is a vowel on one side, then there is an even number on the other side." Let's say you are presented with A, 8, M, and 13, each showing on one of four cards. To see if the rule is valid, you would have to turn over the cards showing

A. 8 and M. B. A and M. C. A and 13. D. 8 and 13.

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Which of the following is true of the relationship between Darwin’s work and the work of his contemporaries?

a. Wallace’s work on evolution was largely plagiarized from Darwin’s work. b. Malthus’s ideas about competition for limited resources was elaborated on by Darwin. c. FitzRoy was an outspoken defender of Darwin’s work. d. Lamarck adamantly believed that species did not and could not change over time.

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In order for an individual’s genetic material to be manifest in the individual’s observable characteristics, the information in the DNA must first do what?

a. be encoded in ribonucleic acid (RNA) b. determine the sequence of amino acids c. go to the part of the cell capable of proteins d. produce proteins by producing amino acids

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