Lyette has recently given birth to her first child. She decides
to start playing classical music near the baby's crib at night so that the child will develop greater intelligence. Which of the following may be an explanation for why such strategies appear to have some impact on the developing child?
A) These strategies are like "vegetables for the brain," and impact virtually every area of brain growth and development. This is why it is a good idea to play classical music for a child even before (s)he is born.
B) These strategies impact the use of echoic memory, which is distinctly tied to the ability to boost intellectual growth.
C) These strategies boost the activity of the temporal lobes, which are responsible for both hearing and intellectual development. Therefore, long-term intelligence improvement is likely to occur.
D) These strategies boost short-term arousal, which may help performance on mentally demanding tasks for a brief period of time; however, there is no evidence that they will impact long-term intelligence.
D
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Richard is a piano major and enters two music competitions in the same month. He places first in one of the competitions, but doesn't place at all in the other. If Richard is likemost people, he willprobably ____
a. make internal attributions in both cases b. make external attributions in both cases c. make an internal attribution for placing first, but an external attribution for not placing at all d. make an internal attribution for not placing at all, but an external attribution for placing first
Kimball was hanging out in the neighborhood with his friends. Kimball produced a small bottle of vodka from his coat and poured some into each of his friends’ sodas. They all approved of this conspiratorial act. This type of negative influence among friends is called
a. co-rumination. b. deviancy training. c. being part of a crowd. d. cyberbullying.
In Bartholomew and Horowitz's model, Representation of Self = Negative and Representation of Others = Fearful (Negative) results in
a. secure primary attachments. b. disorganized/disoriented primary attachments. c. insecure-avoidant primary attachments. d. insecure-resistant primary attachments
"Natural selection" is a process by which
A) favorable traits become increasingly common in a population of interbreeding individuals, while traits that are unfavorable become less common. B) animal breeders select animals in each generation that have the most "natural" traits to breed the next generation. C) favorable traits become increasingly common in a population over the course of a single generation. D) genetic mutations lead to random changes within a population of organisms.