Compared with healthy individuals, people with schizophrenia experience
a. less brain growth in the teen years
b. excessive brain growth in the teen years.
c. excessive loss of gray matter during their teen years.
d. excessive loss of white matter during their teen years.
c
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Rather than using the term critical period, it is more accurate to characterize the effects of early experience on vision as a "_____."
a. sensitive period b. critical stage c. genetically determined event d. once-in-a-lifetime moment
In which of the following ways do psychological and social factors influence health?
a. They can affect basic biological processes resulting in illness and disease. b. Unhealthy lifestyles can increase the risk of developing physical disorders. c. Both of these d. Neither of these
Bettina was diagnosed with schizophrenia in the late 1960s and placed on Haldol (haloperidol). Bettina lived a relatively normal life until recently, when she began uncontrollably thrusting out her tongue, grotesquely squinching her face, and flailing her arms and legs. It appears that Bettina has developed ____
a. ?mania b. ?tardive dyskinesia c. ?Parkinson's syndrome. d. ?muscular dystrophy
The more information you learn, the easier it becomes
a. to add new information to memory. b. to forget previously learned information. c. for interference and retrieval failure to occur. d. for a person to develop Alzheimer's disease or other forms of dementia.