What does neural plasticity refer to?
A. ability of the growth cones to guide the developing neurons
B. ability of the neuron to be modified by experience
C. chemical components of the developing neuron
D. proliferation of healthy neurons
Answer: B
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How does the brain represent language in a bilingual person? a. One language is in the left hemisphere and the other is in both hemispheres
b. One language is in the left hemisphere and the other is in the right hemisphere. c. An expanded area of the brain controls language, but it is the same for both languages. d. One language is in Broca's area and the other is in Wernicke's area.
Danielle, a college senior, is trying to remember the names of the classmates that attended her high school graduation party but cannot. It is most likely that
a. she never transferred the information from short-term to long-term memory. b. the memory of the party has been written over by new information. c. the memory of the party has been displaced from long-term memory by newer information. d. she has not yet found the cues that will help her retrieve the information from long-term memory.
Piaget described a scheme as a psychological structure that
A. organizes experience. B. is used in language but not thought. C. we lose as we age. D. is only found in those with a set of personal values.
Which of the following statements about divorce in late adulthood is true?
A) Less than 1 percent of all U.S. divorces involve couples over age 65. B) The divorce rate among people 65 and older has decreased over the past three decades. C) About half of older adults' dissolving marriages are lengthy—30 years or more. D) Compared with younger adults, seniors are less likely to experience a sense of personal failure following divorce.