Puberty is defined as __________
a) the production of hormones in the reproductive glands stimulated by the pituitary gland.
b) the stage of identity versus role confusion.
c) the physical changes that occur in the body as sexual development reaches its peak.
d) the time when a child becomes a teenager.
c
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The left and right cerebral hemispheres are connected by a large bundle of axons called the __________.
A. amygdala B. corpus callosum C. hippocampus D. subcortical structures
The __________ describes a person's ability to better retrieve information when in the same situation in which the information was first encoded
a. state dependency effect b. context effect c. retrieval bolstering effect d. law of effect
Which of the following is CORRECT regarding the fuzzy trace theory and memory errors?
a. Younger children are more likely than older children and adolescents to remember the gist, which is why younger children are more prone to memory errors. b. Older children and adolescents are more likely than younger children to remember verbatim, rather than the gist, which is why older children and adolescents often have memory errors. c. Younger children are more likely than older children and adolescents to remember verbatim, rather than the gist, which is why younger children are more prone to memory errors. d. Older children and adolescents are more likely than younger children to remember the gist, rather than verbatim, which is why older children and adolescents often have memory errors.
According to the article Reach for the Sky about peoples' estimations of their own physical ability, baseline measures were used in the main study to:
(a) assess what people did when they were home (b) divide the participants into experimental groups (c) find maximum ability to permit adjustment of task equipment (d) discourage participants from cheating on tasks