Children with Internalizing Problems Struggle to Reappraise Difficult Situations in a Positive

question 3

Multiple Choice

Children with internalizing problems struggle to reappraise difficult situations in a positive light, and this contributes to depression and anxiety. This observation was used as evidence for which of the following explanations of emotion-based disorders in children?

• A) Emotion-based disorders are due to an imbalance among emotions.
• B) Children with emotion-based disorders react to events with atypical emotional responses.
• C) Psychological patterns that are viewed as disordered by society actually reflect strategic adaptations to negative environments that children have experienced.
• D) Children with emotion-based disorders are poor emotion regulators.

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Definitions:

mRNA Molecule

Messenger RNA, a type of RNA that conveys genetic information from DNA to the ribosome, where it specifies the amino acid sequence of the protein products of gene expression.

Introns

Non-coding sequences of DNA within a gene that are removed by RNA splicing during the maturation of the final RNA product.

Exons

Regions of a gene that code for proteins and are expressed in the RNA.

Transposons

DNA sequences that can change their position within a genome, sometimes causing or reversing mutations and altering the cell's genetic identity.