Tay-Sachs disease, which produces severe motor and sensory disabilities, intellectual disability, and death at age 2 to 4 years, is found especially in
a. European Americans.
b. Hasidic Jews.
c. Ashkenazi Jews.
d. Australian Americans.
c
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b. is never psychologically helpful. c. doesn't really help him endure the initial shock any more easily. d. results in higher levels of corticosteroids (stress hormones).
When caregiver?infant communication is seriously disrupted, infant __________ is common—a condition that impairs all aspects of development
A) fear B) sadness C) anger D) disgust
Ultrasound allows physicians to ______.
A. analyze the genotype of the fetus B. administer hormones to the developing fetus C. diagnose most chromosomal disorders in the fetus D. determine the sex of the fetus
The idea that borderline personality disorder stems from a pre-Oedipal failure to develop a sense of constancy and unity in one's image of the self and other was proposed by __________.
A. Kohut B. Kernberg C. Mahler D. Millon