Highly Coordinated Children Are Picked Out at an Early Age

question 105

Multiple Choice

Highly coordinated children are picked out at an early age by coaches and given special opportunities to excel at sports. Extraverted children seek out social situations and become unusually comfortable with strangers. Both of these phenomena illustrate

• A) how the environment shapes one's genetic endowment.
• B) genotype-environment correlations.
• C) the polygenic effect of chromosomes on behavior.
• D) the power of the phenotype over the genotype.

Correlate the symptoms of psychosis induced by substance abuse with those of other psychiatric conditions like schizophrenia.

Evaluate effective treatment approaches for individuals with substance addiction and antisocial tendencies.

Recognize the physical and psychological signs of heroin addiction and withdrawal symptoms.

Prioritize patient care tasks for individuals who have overdosed on specific substances, including methamphetamine.

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Definitions:

Activation-synthesis

A theory of dreaming that states dreams are created by the higher centers of the cortex to explain the activation by the brain stem of cortical cells during REM sleep periods.

Narcolepsy

A chronic sleep disorder characterized by overwhelming daytime drowsiness and sudden attacks of sleep, often linked to a deficiency in the brain's regulation of wakefulness.

Muscle Paralysis

The loss of muscle function in part of your body, which can be a complete or partial inability to move muscles.

Sleep

A naturally recurring state of mind and body characterized by altered consciousness, relatively inhibited sensory activity, reduced muscle activity, and inhibited nearly all voluntary muscles during rapid eye movement (REM) stages.