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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A) a case study. B) naturalistic observation. C) an experiment. D) self-reports.
Which brain area is most important for sexual responses of both sexes?
a. central amygdala b. ventromedial hypothalamus c. sexually dimorphic nucleus d. medial preoptic area