Firstborn, Laterborn, and Only Children
What will be an ideal response?
Firstborns are more adult- and achievement-oriented;
laterborns are more sociable and more innovative; onlies have more academic success, higher levels of intelligence, leadership, autonomy, and maturity
Adopted children are similar to non-adopted in terms of temperament, attachment, and cognitive development
Problems are more likely to occur if the child was older when adopted and his/her pre-adoption care was poor
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b. Some individuals learn faster or more easily than others do. c. Stimulant drugs increase alertness and therefore improve learning. d. Learning is faster if it combines both classical and operant conditioning.
The prefrontal cortex includes areas of the brain that are __________.
A. not developed enough to be functional until middle childhood B. involved in vision C. in the brain stem D. the most evolutionarily recent
What difficulty did monists face in finding support for their views regarding the mind and brain?
A. explaining how a physical brain could result in mental processes B. explaining how the mind could exist C. explaining how the brain could exist D. explaining how a nonphysical mind could impact a physical body
According to terror management theory, _____ is a shield that buffers us against the anxiety that knowledge of our own mortality creates.
A) the mortality salience hypothesis B) approach motivation C) avoidance motivation D) a cultural worldview