Professor Bingham measures the cognitive skills of one hundred 30-year-olds and compares them with one hundred 50-year-olds. This is an example of which method?
A. Longitudinal
B. Sequential
C. Clinical
D. Cross-sectional
Answer: D
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A. neuronal pruning B. synaptic pruning C. transient exuberance D. neurogenesis
According to the text, optimistic bias is defined as
a. the gap between what children and adolescents can accomplish alone and what they are capable of doing if guided by a more competent peer. b. the tendency to assume that accidents, diseases, and other misfortunes are more likely to happen to others than ourselves. c. the cognitive process that occurs when a scheme is changed to adapt new information or assimilate prior knowledge. d. an aspect of short-term memory that refers to where information may be influenced by heuristic thinking
Which of the following statements is true about any corresponding pair of alleles?
A) The two alleles inherited are always the same. B) The two alleles inherited are always different. C) The two alleles inherited can be either the same or different. D) The two alleles inherited are never the same.
Tyrone is a college student who's trying to decide what he wants to do with his life. He was interested in history, so he majored in history for his freshman year. As a sophomore, he was more interested in economics and changed his major. After he saw Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, he got a summer job working on an archaeological project, and now he is thinking of changing
his major again and becoming an archaeologist. Tyrone appears to be __________ in the degree to which he's committed to his new identity and __________ in the degree to which he's spent time and effort examining his options. A) high; high B) high; low C) low; high D) low; low