What are some of the key factors affecting rates and expression of mental disorders?
What will be an ideal response?
New pressures and social changes may place children at increasing risk for the development of disorders at younger ages (Obradovic et al., 2010). Many stressors today are quite different from those faced by our parents and grandparents. Some have been around for generations: chronic poverty, inequality, family breakup, single parenting, and so on. Others are more recent or are now more visible: homelessness, adjustment problems of children in immigrant families, inadequate child care available to working parents, and conditions associated with the impact of prematurity, parental HIV, and cocaine or alcohol abuse on children's growth and development.
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James Olds and Peter Milner provided rats with the opportunity to electrically stimulate their own pleasure centers in the brains by pressing a lever. What was a key finding of that experiment?
A. The rats avoided the lever completely. B. The rats showed restraint and rarely pressed the lever. C. The rats would press the lever, but stop during feeding time. D. The rats chose to press the lever rather than seek food, sex, and water.
Jasmine is taking a test that will determine whether she would be successful at computer programming. Jasmine is most likely taking a __________ test.
A. Divergent thinking
B. Special aptitude
C. General intelligence
D. Multiple aptitude
When a child makes adjustments to the social setting that are necessary to produce and interpret communication, he or she is using which component of communicative competence?
a. Pragmatics b. Verbatim accounts c. Moral judgments d. Fast mapping
Lory entered a dark movie theater from the bright sunlight. Which of the following was occurring in her retinal system?
a. a slow shift from cone vision to rod vision b. a rapid shift from cone vision to rod vision c. a slow shift from rod vision to cone vision d. a rapid shift from rod vision to cone vision