The study of how people change from birth through old age is called gerontology
a. True
b. False
Answer: b
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If researchers measure how some Canadian children behave after playing a violent video game for 2 hours and then replicate the experiment with Asian, European, and African children and then with teenagers, the researchers would be using which justification of nonrandom sampling?
A) Sometimes generality does not matter. B) Sometimes generality is the cause of the effect. C) Sometimes generality can be determined. D) Sometimes generality can be assumed.
In pioneering research with the sea slug Aplysia, Kandel and colleagues demonstrated that, after generating a strong gill-withdrawal response by delivering a shock to the tail of Aplysia, even light touches to the tail would provoke gill withdrawal for some period of time. This finding demonstrates the behavioural principle of:
A) classical conditioning. B) habituation. C) operant conditioning. D) sensitization.
Dr. Atchley is performing an autopsy on a brain of a patient who had Alzheimer's disease. What two cellular abnormalities would Dr. Atchley expect to find? What damage would these have done to the brain?
What will be an ideal response?
The following behavior changes illustrate learning:
a. behavior resulting from injury or disease b. behavior resulting from experience c. behavior resulting from disease or drugs d. biologically determined behavior