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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The DSM-5 is due to be published in May 2013. Which of the following statements is false with regard to this DSM revision?
a) Revisions to the current classification system (DSM-IV-TR) were influenced by the FFM. b) The DSM-5 revision is expected to utilize a hybrid model of personality disorders, integrating dimensional and categorical approaches. c) The DSM-5 revision reflects the idea that psychological disorders are distinctly different characteristics in the individuals diagnosed with them, rather than the extremes of normal characteristics. d) The revisions in the DSM-5 will enable therapists to work with the DSM in new ways in order to provide accurate diagnosis of symptoms.
In humans, which of the following looks like a giant, wrinkled walnut that consists of the two large hemispheres and covers the upper part of the brain?
a. cerebellum b. cerebral cortex c. limbic system d. hippocampus