Why does administration of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) often cause memory loss?
a) It disrupts the process of consolidation.
b) It decreases the speed of information processing.
c) It destroys brain areas responsible for memory storage.
d) It causes a release of stress hormones that initiate a process of repression.
A
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A. negated any action tendency. B. been changed by the emotion culture. C. ceased to be passions. D. altered her thought processes.
The methodology for demonstrating that kittens raised in a purely vertically
striped environment had lasting physiological effects involved (a) imprinting (b) recording the electrical events in single cells in the visual cortex (c) seeing if the kittens would adapt faster to horizontal than vertical stripes (d) ethological investigations
The strange situation experimental paradigm studies which of the following?
A. mere exposure B. attachment theory C. similarity-attraction hypothesis D. attachment theory
In a highly plastic cerebral cortex,
A) the areas of the brain are strongly committed to specific functions, and there is a high capacity for learning. B) if a part of the cortex is damaged, other parts can take over the tasks it would have handled. C) spatial skills develop more rapidly than language skills and are easier to recover after injury. D) the right and left hemispheres of the brain have become strongly lateralized.