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sjones

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on: Jun 22, 2018
The most recent research evidence suggests that the relationship between the brain (structure, function, neurotransmitters) and psychosocial factors (socialization, rearing, life events) is best described as
 
  a. a system where the brain directly influences behavior and psychosocial factors but not the other way around.
  b. an interaction where the brain affects psychosocial factors and vice versa.
 c. a system where behavior and psychosocial factors impact the brain but not the other way around.
 d. far too complex to ever understand how one system influences the other.

Question 2

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
 
  a. the neurotransmitter circuits of the brain had been normalized.
 b. the patients' OCD symptoms improved without changes in neurotransmitter function.
  c. neither OCD symptoms nor neurotransmitter function had improved.
 d. neurotransmitter circuits are the direct and only cause of OCD.


alexisweber49

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Reply #1 on: Jun 22, 2018
Answer to Question 1

b

Answer to Question 2

a


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