James just celebrated his 16th birthday. By this age, he has likely experienced full maturation of the brain regions responsible for

A. judgment.
B. spatial relations.
C. emotion regulation.
D. problem-solving.


Answer: B

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Owen and colleagues (2006) conducted research on a young woman who had been in a vegetative state for five months. When she was asked to imagine visiting rooms of her house, she

a. awakened from the vegetative state. b. remained in the state, but spoke aloud stating which rooms she was visiting. c. had a brain that responded in the same manner as a healthy brain would respond. d. showed no measurable neurological reaction to the stimulation.

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If you could surgically remove a single neuron from the brain and place it on a slide, what structure(s) would you have to destroy?

A. soma B. axon C. synapses D. dendrites

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Which of the following first identified many of the defense mechanisms and believed that these defense mechanisms were unconscious?

a. Stanley Schachter b. William James c. Sigmund Freud d. Abraham Maslow

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