Which of the following parts of the brain plays a role in disorders, such as phobias and posttraumatic stress, in which a person has disabling fears and anxiety?
a. amygdala
b. hypothalamus
c. pons
d. somatosensory cortex
A
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Attention to human speech can be demonstrated in infants
a. during the embryonic prenatal stage. b. within days after birth. c. by the age of two months. d. by the age of six months.
If someone has trauma-related symptoms (e.g., flashbacks) that last less than one month, that person would be diagnosed as experiencing
A. posttraumatic stress disorder. B. borderline personality disorder. C. chronic stress disorder. D. acute stress disorder.
Which statement about planning is true?
A) Adult-controlled activities help children engage in advance planning. B) Planning on multistep tasks declines over the school years. C) The demands of school tasks contribute to declines in school-age children’s planning. D) Children learn much about planning from collaborating with more expert planners.
A third-year psychology student was able to obtain a measure of hypnotizability in a population of psychology undergraduates. The distribution was normal with a mean of 19 and standard deviation of 8.3. What is the approximate probability that a randomly chosen score from this distribution will be in the interval 10.7 to 27.3?
a. .34 b. .96 c. .32 d. .68