Jack, Jim, and Justin All Have Intellectual Disabilities

question 18

Multiple Choice

Jack, Jim, and Justin all have intellectual disabilities. Jack's mother was a chronic alcoholic. Jim's mother beat him on the head repeatedly when he was an infant. Justin was born prematurely and suffered from a lack of oxygen at birth. The cause of intellectual disabilities for all three boys is due to ____.

• A) organic factors
• B) nongenetic biological factors
• C) genetic factors
• D) environmental factors

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Definitions:

Electroconvulsive Therapy

A psychiatric treatment where seizures are electrically induced in patients to provide relief from severe mental diseases, particularly major depressive disorder.

Suicidal

Pertaining to having thoughts, ideations, or tendencies towards ending one’s own life.

Electroconvulsive Therapy

Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) is a medical treatment most commonly used for patients with severe major depression or bipolar disorder that have not responded to other treatments, involving brief electrical stimulation of the brain while the patient is under anesthesia.

Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, are a class of medications commonly used to treat depression and anxiety by increasing serotonin levels in the brain.