Gwen is a 35-year-old woman. She has had a series of incredi…
Gwen is a 35-year-old woman. She has had a series of incredibly unstable romantic relationships. As soon as she enters a relationship, she becomes extremely worried that her partner might abandon or break up with her. She then becomes very manipulative, for instance, threatening to kill herself if her partner ever leaves her. In-between relationships, Gwen is very emotionally unbalanced, having periods of depression and high anxiety. Which psychological disorder best matches the description of Gwen above?
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Jaxson is a neurologist. He is looking at a brain scan and sees that a patient had a stroke that severely damaged the part of the brain labeled with a ‘2’ in the image below. Given only this information, what behavioral problem would Jaxson expect the patient to show?
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Grace learns that her infant child needs to have blood drawn every week to check on a medical condition. Blood draws tend to cause infants pain and when infants are in pain, they naturally react by crying. The first time Grace and her child enter the doctor’s office, the child doesn’t respond at all until the doctor does the blood draw. As soon as the child feels the needle, the child reacts by crying. The exact same thing happens the next five times. The sixth time, the child starts crying as soon as they enter the doctor’s office, before the doctor has even started the blood draw. In this example of classical conditioning, the blood draw is the:
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