The Likelihood That a Child Born to Two Schizophrenic Parents

question 10

Multiple Choice

The likelihood that a child born to two schizophrenic parents will become schizophrenic is less than 50 percent.This suggests that

• A) schizophrenia is not produced by a single gene.
• B) schizophrenic parents rarely marry.
• C) schizophrenia is a metabolic disorder.
• D) schizophrenia is produced by a single dominant gene.
• E) schizophrenia is associated with infertility.

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Definitions:

Parts of Speech

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Anterograde Amnesia

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Newborn Grandchild

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Classical Conditioning

A type of learning process in which a neutral stimulus becomes associated with a meaningful stimulus, eliciting a conditioned response.