One subcortical area that undergoes substantial neuron loss during aging, at least in monkeys, is the ___
a. Medulla
b. Pons
c. Thalamus
d. Basal forebrain region
D
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Robin suffers from extreme social withdrawal and a flat emotional affect. Diagnosed with schizophrenia, her doctor would be MOST likely to prescribe:
A) Thorazine. B) Haldol. C) Clozaril. D) Mellaril.
Williams and Ceci (2015) sought to determine if gender biases exist in academic hiring practices. They studied almost 1,000 professors in a mock hiring situation in which each professor read the files of several job applicants and then rank-ordered the applicants in terms of most-to-least qualified. What the professors did not know was that the gender of the job applicants was randomly assigned
to the professors. That is, if one professor read that job applicant A was a woman, another professor read that the same job applicant A was a man. As a result, an average rating of each applicant could be compared when that applicant was presented as a male and as a female. The authors reported that: A) academic professors had a bias for hiring male applicants. B) academic professors had a bias for hiring female applicants. C) gender biases existed for the hard sciences such as biology, but not for the social sciences. D) no systematic gender biases were observed among the academic professors.
According to the textbook, concepts are easily developed by children because:
a. the attention span for interesting things is much larger in children than in adults b. parents provide much stimulation to children c. the brain is innately wired to process different concepts in different locations d. parents are so willing to name objects and events
Together, the somatic nervous system and the autonomic nervous system make up the ____ nervous system.
A. peripheral B. central C. sympathetic D. dorsal