Which of the following is the correct definition of meningiomas?
a) A category of secondary tumors that form from migrated tumor tissue that typically originated in the meninges.
b) A haemorrhaging site that is localized in the meninges.
c) An encapsulated tumor that grows out of the meninges.
d) A localized seizure that occurs in which the abnormal EEG activity is limited to the meninges.
e) A rare, but malignant infiltrating tumor that tends to occur next to the meninges early in life.
Answer: C
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A person is diagnosed as having a learning disorder when they demonstrate a large discrepancy between their achievement and measured IQ, due to such factors as low motivation or physical problems such as visual deficits
a. true b. false
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A) Violent programming creates short-term increases in aggression, but does not have lasting negative effects. B) Aggressive children have a greater appetite for violent media than nonaggressive children. C) Older children are more likely than preschool and young school-age children to imitate TV violence. D) Violent television has a negative effect only on children who are already highly aggressive.
Mrs. Petraglia is the teacher of a 3rd grade class, and the kids are working on learning how to write sentences and paragraphs. Even though all of the students have very different handwriting – some neat, some sloppy,
some nearly unintelligible – Mrs. Petraglia is able to read the words of all of her different students because she expects to see certain letters and certain words on the papers. Which theory of perception explains why Mrs. Petraglia can read her students' various handwriting? a. Bottom-up processing b. Top-down processing c. Illusory contours d. Graphorelative prediction