How do cultural dimensions affect the expression of anxiety disorders?
a. Ethnic minorities have been underrepresented in obsessive-compulsive disorder research and symptoms may not be picked up by the current diagnostic system.
b. The prevalence of obsessive-compulsive disorder is consistent across cultures.
c. Onset of obsessive-compulsive disorder occurs more commonly in older adults than in adolescents.
d. European Americans are less likely to receive an obsessive-compulsive disorder diagnosis than African Americans and Hispanic Americans.
Question 2
When her boyfriend asks her about today's therapy session, Jamie responds, It wasn't very fun. My therapist had me sit right next to her trash can, which was brimming full of garbage and half-eaten food. I could almost see the germs jumping right out at me. Now she wants me to touch something I think is contaminated at least once a day every day this week.. Jamie has probably been diagnosed with ____ and is being treated using ____.
a. a specific phobia; exposure
b. obsessive-compulsive disorder; exposure
c. a specific phobia; systematic rational restructuring
d. obsessive-compulsive disorder; systematic rational restructuring
Examples of endocrine disorders. (B) A patient with a goiter.
Transmission of autosomal dominant disorders (50% chance for an affected child).
Cultural Coherence and Diversity
Global Dimensions
Epigenetic changes to DNA, such as methylation, change patterns of gene expression by activating or
Conservation of organization and patterns of expression in Hox genes