Sharon stubbed her toe last weekend and immediately saw a physician, who recommended she do nothing about it and simply live with the discomfort until it healed. Sharon then consulted numerous Internet sites for more information, worried and convinced that her pain was a sign of developing toe cancer. She set an alarm to wake up each hour to ice her toe and inspect it carefully for any signs of swelling, rash, or other changes. Which disorder is likely to apply to Sharon’s reactions to her minor mishap?
A) Conversion disorder
B) Dissociative fugue
C) Somatic symptom disorder
D) Tolerance disorder
C) Somatic symptom disorder
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A) think through a series of steps and then mentally reverse direction B) focus on relations between a general and two specific categories at the same time C) solve problems using abstract reasoning D) order items along a quantitative dimension
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A) it stressed the influence of the early parent–child relationship on development. B) it overemphasized the influence of sexual feelings in development. C) Freud had not directly studied adolescents or adults. D) it ignored personality development.
Genes are located on _______________, rod-shaped structures found in the nucleus of a cell
a. ribosomes b. chromosomes c. genomes d. DNA