Which factor contributes to the sharp rise in suicide from childhood to adolescence?
A) belief in the personal fable
B) inability to plan ahead
C) identity foreclosure
D) magical thinking
Answer: A
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a. the evolutionary perspective. b. the humanistic perspective. c. the psychodynamic perspective. d. the behavioral perspective.
When we believe the event will be extremely demanding and will put us at risk for damage, we make a(n) ____ appraisal
a. caution b. alert c. danger d. threat
According to the neuropsychology research on imagery,
a. people who can quickly perform visual-imagery tasks show only a small increase in blood flow to the visual cortex. b. people with lesions in the visual cortex typically manage to construct vivid visual images. c. visual imagery and visual perception cannot be identical, because actual perception activates the receptors in the eye. d. surprisingly, both the auditory cortex and the visual cortex are activated when people are instructed to create an auditory image.
Which of the following is true regarding left-handed people?
Myelination takes longer than it does in right-handed people. They are less likely to succeed in sports. Their corpus callosums tend to be thicker than those of right-handed people. The language areas of their brains are on the right side of the brain.