Nancy recently lost her father, who suffered from Alzheimer's the last several years of his life. She said she was going to do everything in her power to avoid the same fate
What are two measures that she can take to reduce the risk of developing this disease?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: She can eat a low-fat Mediterranean diet, she can exercise, and she can exercise the brain by doing puzzles, reading, etc.
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In some military prisons,soldiers use, among other tactics, both sleep deprivation and repeated exposure to annoying music, in an effort to "break" prisoners' resistance and convince them to answer questions. These soldiers are apparently operating under the assumption that ____ makes people more yielding
a. inoculation to persuasive messages b. a reduction of stockpiled resources c. negative attitude change d. systematic desensitization
Compared to typical readers, readers with dyslexia showed ____
a. ?greater activation of Broca’s area, which participates in speech production b. ?greater facility with rhyming tasks and recognizing synonym pairs c. ?greater facility in discriminating among similar-sounding phonemes d. ?greater activity in a pathway connecting the visual cortex to Wernicke’s area
Twin studies indicate that schizophrenia has a genetic component, with concordance rates for schizophrenia among identical twins at
a. 50 to 53%. b. 25 to 50%. c. 50 to 73%. d. 10 to 24%.
Growth in brain sophistication during middle childhood allows the child to focus on certain stimuli to the exclusion of others. This ability is known as
automatization. decentration. transduction. selective attention.