What are polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)? How do they affect prenatal development?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: For many years, PCBs were used to insulate electrical equipment, until research showed that they entered waterways and the food supply. In Taiwan, prenatal exposure to high levels of PCBs in rice oil resulted in low birth weight, discolored skin, deformities of the gums and nails, brain-wave abnormalities, and delayed cognitive development. Steady, low-level PCB exposure is also harmful. Women who frequently ate PCB-contaminated fish, compared with those who ate little or no fish, had infants with lower birth weights, smaller heads, persisting attention and memory difficulties, and lower intelligence scores in childhood.
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a. attribution b. kinesics c. cognition d. physiological arousal
A police officer was shot in a gun battle with bank robbers. Although emergency brain surgery saved his life, it left him unable to store new information. When asked to provide a diagnosis of the difficulties he suffers, what will they write?
a) proactive amnesia b) anterograde amnesia c) retrograde amnesia d) retroactive amnesia
The tendency to give too much emphasis to personal factors when accounting for other people's actions is part of the fundamental attribution error
a. True b. False
Discuss the challenges adolescents face during the transition from elementary and middle school to junior high school.
What will be an ideal response?