Research with Primates Has Found That When Maternal Diets Were

question 59

Multiple Choice

Research with primates has found that when maternal diets were inadequate for a sustained part of a pregnancy, the infants

• A) were more prone to later become obese when they were raised in an environment where food was abundant.
• B) tended to stay small and lighter throughout their lifetime.
• C) appeared to be unaffected, but their offspring tended to be weak and malnourished.
• D) still managed to get all the nutrients that they needed from their mothers.

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Psychodynamic Therapies

A set of therapeutic approaches that emphasize unconscious psychological processes and past experiences as key factors in current psychological problems.

EMDR

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is a form of psychotherapy intended to reduce the distress tied to memories of trauma.

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A type of behavior conditioning that uses negative stimuli to reinforce a behavior's undesirable consequences.

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