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According to the diathesis-stress model, psychopathology is the result of the |
interaction of an inherited tendency and events in an individual’s life. |
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An example of the relationship between emotion and health is demonstrated by the finding that |
anger increases the risk of heart disease. |
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A rat is placed in a cage and given electrical shocks over which it has no control. When placed in a shuttle box, the rat does not attempt to escape the shock due to |
learned helplessness. |
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Balancing the “emergency” or “alarm” response to stress and returning the body to a state of “normal arousal” is a function of the |
parasympathetic nervous system. |
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Drugs that increase the activity of a neurotransmitter are called |
agonists. |
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Epigenetics refers to the process of cellular material influencing traits by |
Turning on or off genes from outside of the genome itself. |
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In the 1992 studies conducted by Baxter et al., OCD patients were provided with cognitive-behavioral therapy (exposure and response prevention) but no drugs. This study is important because brain imaging showed that |
the neurotransmitter circuits of the brain had been normalized. |
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It is important to understand the process of how learned helplessness is created in laboratory animals because learned helplessness in animals resembles the human disorder of |
depression. |
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Many factors determine whether genes are “turned on,” including |
All of the above. |
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Recent research and increased understanding about the role of neurotransmitters in psychopathology point out that |
simple cause/effect conclusions that an individual neurotransmitter abnormality causes a disorder are incomplete. |
