Answer questions using 4-8 complete sentences for each. Do not answer question in outline format. For each answer include the relevant page number(s) OR sections from your textbook or etext. You will not receive credit for responses that do not have related page number(s) or course reference. You must answer responses in your own words. Responses must be original. Each answer should be able to be read as a complete essay– ie. restate the question, make it clear what you are answering. Attend to the words “describe,” “explain,” and “discuss”– these indicate that you must demonstrate a full understanding of the question and convey that information to the reader. Do not just copy what is in the text book- but rather put it in your own words and make it clear that you have thought about the content. Number questions before each response.
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Content and sentence structure is clearly connected and answered questions with four (4) complete sentence.
Response is organized and detailed
Included all 15 questions with appropriate reference with page number(s)/section(s) from text
1. Describe the maladaptive traits someone scoring high or low on the neuroticism factor might experience.
2. DSM-5 describes personality disorders in terms of discrete categories. Discuss the limitations of this approach.
3. Discuss the importance of understanding a patient’s culture when making a diagnostic decision.
4. Explain how genetic factors, family processes, and the social environment interact in the etiology of antisocial behavior.
5. Discuss the defining characteristics of anorexia.
6. What patterns in the epidemiology of eating disorders suggest sociocultural influences on their development?
7. Describe the research on the effectiveness of different forms of therapy for treating bulimia nervosa.
8. What are the symptoms and causes of withdrawal? Which drugs cause serious signs of withdrawal?
9. Discuss the other disorders commonly associated with substance use disorders.
10. Discuss the ways that parent behaviors influence the likelihood that an adolescent will abuse substances.
11. Review the evidence for the role of the brain’s reward systems in a model of the cause of drug addiction in general.
12. What is the National Health and Social Life Survey (NHSLS)? What are some of its key findings?
13. Discuss the approach to viewing the problem of uncontrolled sexual behavior as a form of addiction.
14. Explain how paraphilias are usually viewed in terms of more than just deviant sexual behavior.
15. Summarize the psychological treatments used to treat paraphilias and their efficacy.
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