What are the long-term effects and characteristic physiological features of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder?

What will be an ideal response?


Children with this disorder have cognitive deficits that put them behind academically and socially. Many children with FASD have facial deformities, heart problems, and misshapen limbs. In adolescence, they are at risk for delinquency, substance abuse, and depression.

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Why might negative emotions produce moral behavior, according to both contemporary and psychoanalytic explanations?

A. Acting badly produces a rebound effect, in which people then want to act morally. B. The experience of both morality and contempt are closely linked in nearby brain structures. C. Children may act in moral, prosocial ways to avoid feelings of personal distress or guilt. D. Negative emotions spur the id to "challenge" the superego to enact moral behavior.

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The main source of testosterone in males is supplied by which gland?

a. pineal b. pituitary c. adrenal d. testes

Psychology

The idea that a littered environment elicits more anti-social behavior is known as the ______.

a. broken glass theory b. broken window theory c. spreading of chaos theory d. none of these

Psychology

Hans Eysenck developed a model of personality that initially had _____ factors.

A) 2 B) 5 C) 16 D) 40

Psychology