The evidence for a genetic component to phobias is limited by the fact that

a) relatives of individuals with agoraphobia are likely to develop a different anxiety disorder rather than a phobia.
b) the similarity between parents and children may be due to modeling, not genetics.
c) blood and injection phobias have a stronger genetic basis than social phobia.
d) several recent studies have found that relatives of people with phobias are not more likely to develop phobias.

b

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a. sleep apnea b. sleep aphasia c. sleep-related senescence d. insomnia

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A person is most likely to first show symptoms of frontotemporal neurocognitive disorder during ______

a. childhood c. middle age b. adolescence d. late adulthood

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