Describe how the seemingly contrary concepts of brain plasticity and synaptic pruning are both beneficial to development
What will be an ideal response?
The immature brain's greater plasticity is beneficial when the normal course of brain development is disrupted by an injury or by deprivation of some essential ingredients of successful brain development. For example, someone with an injury to the left hemisphere of his brain and who has suffered an impairment in language skills can recover their language skills when other neurons take over language-related processing from the damaged neuron. Synaptic pruning is the gradual reduction in the number of synapses, beginning in infancy and continuing until early adolescence. This process is beneficial in weeding out unnecessary connections between neurons.
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a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Which male is LEAST likely to have sex before he is 15?
a. Sam, who has low self-esteem. b. Gerald, who has moderate self-esteem c. Trimayne, who has high self-esteem d. No relationship has been found between self-esteem and early sex for boys.
An autobiographical memory is a memory for
a. historical events that occurred before your conception. b. other people's lives. c. past personal experiences. d. future possible events in one's life.
Dr. Bigg has been treating Joshua, a man with panic disorder and moderate depression, weekly for two years, and between therapy sessions they often trade e-mail messages relating to Joshua's symptoms. Over that two-year span, Joshua's symptoms have been consistent; there's no evidence that he's gotten better or has been prevented from getting worse. How would you assess this situation from the
standpoint of the APA Ethical Principles? a. Dr. Bigg is breaching the ethical guidelines by trading e-mail messages with the client between sessions. b. Dr. Bigg is breaching the ethical guidelines by failing to terminate the treatment and refer Joshua elsewhere. c. Dr. Bigg is breaching the ethical guidelines in this case by offering individual therapy rather than less expensive group therapy. d. There's no evidence that Dr. Bigg is breaching any ethical guideline in this case.