Persons with ____ are fearful of being in a public place or outside the home to the extent that it might be difficult for them to leave without embarrassment or to get help should they have a panic attack
a. nyctophobia c. social phobia
b. astrophobia d. agoraphobia
D
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Regarding the skin senses, which of the following statements is FALSE? a. The skin is the body's largest sensory organ. b. All skin receptors respond to more than one type of stimulation. c. There are close to one-half million receptors for touch and pressure distributed throughout the body. d. The part of the cerebral cortex that processes information from the skin receptors is called
thesomatosensory cortex. e. There are specific receptors in the skin for warmth and cold.
In the context of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale (SBIS), which of the following statements is true of intelligence quotient (IQ)?
A) It is independent of a child's mental age and chronological age. B) It reflects the relationship between a child's mental age and his or her actual age. C) It proves that the same mental age score has the same implication for children of different ages. D) It is the same for two children of different ages who answer exactly the same items on an intelligence test correctly.
Which of the following statements is true about speech perception?
A) Not until the end of the second year can toddlers "screen out" sounds not used in their native tongue. B) Between 6 and 8 months, babies start to "screen out" sounds not used in their native tongue. C) Young infants listen longer to nonspeech sounds than to human speech. D) Newborns prefer speech that is fast, low-pitched, and monotone.
The _______________, or "lesser brain," is involved in remembering simple skills and acquired reflexes
a. pons b. medulla c. reticular activating system d. cerebellum