When your Aunt Desirae skeptically asks you how a stimulant can slow down and calm a hyperactive child, you answer that stimulants ______.
A. act to stimulate underactive frontal areas of the brain
B. exert placebo effects
C. have no such effect
D. act as depressants on hyperactive children
Answer: A
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According to developmental psychologist K. Warner Schaie, the stage in which the major concerns of middle-aged adults relate to their personal situations is also known as what?
A. achieving stage B. acquisitive stage C. executive stage D. responsible stage
The ________ is involved with some motor activities associated with fighting and sexual behavior
a. midbrain b. forebrain c. hindbrain d. corpus callosum
According to research on the effects of social environment on personality, _____
a. Canadians from minority groups with strongest ethnic identities were highest in self-esteem and subjective well-being c. extraversion was found to be higher in the western regions of the United States b. neuroticism is higher in the northwestern and southwestern states of the United States d. children who grow up in disadvantaged neighborhoods are likely to show adaptive tendencies characterized by high resilience
Behavior modification is another term for
a. classical conditioning. c. behavior therapy. b. Gestalt directive therapy. d. nondirective therapy.