Nellie Has Just Discovered That She Is Pregnant

question 14

Multiple Choice

Nellie has just discovered that she is pregnant.She is a smoker and knows she should quit because nicotine is especially harmful to the fetus during the ____ stage of development and leads to ____.

• A) embryonic; low birth weight
• B) embryonic; intellectual disability
• C) fetal; loss of limbs
• D) fetal; brain damage

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Definitions:

Psychotic Disorder

A mental disorder characterized by a disconnection from reality, often manifesting through delusions, hallucinations, and severely disordered thinking and behavior.

Dissociative Identity Disorder

A severe form of dissociation, a mental process which produces a lack of connection in a person’s thoughts, memory, and sense of identity, formerly known as multiple personality disorder.

Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is a long-term mental disorder characterized by distortions in thought, perception, emotions, language, sense of self, and behavior, often involving hallucinations and delusions.

Bipolar

A mental disorder characterized by episodes of mania and depression.