If you were advising a friend on the benefits or harms of allowing her young children to watch television, you would be most correct if you informed her that the most important factor in this question is
a. the content of the programs that children watch
b. the number of hours that children watch television.
c. the number of programs that children watch television.
d. whether children watch television while doing other things, such as eating meals.
a
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Jimmy's mother needed to stop breast-feeding. The problem is, Jimmy is having a very hard transferring from breast milk to formula. What can his mother do to help with this transition?
a. She can heat the formula. b. She can add a little sugar to the formula to make it sweet. c. She can serve it very cold. d. She can add something sour to the formula to make it more appealing.
Research by Sapolsky (2017) showed that extended stress has been linked to shrinking of ______.
A. adrenal glands B. the frontal lobe C. the pituitary gland D. the thymus gland
You locate a vending machine and deposit your last bit of change to buy a candy bar
Then you press the button, and nothing happens. You press the other buttons, try the coin return, and look for an attendant. Still nothing happens. Impulsively, you give the machine a little kick, and out pops a candy bar plus 75 cents. Because your kick produced food and money, the odds of repeating the "kicking response" increase. This situation illustrates a. classical conditioning. b. vicarious conditioning. c. the law of association. d. the law of effect.
One of the last brain regions to mature, and the one that shows the longest period of maturation, is the
a. occipital lobe b. prefrontal lobe c. temporal lobe d. motor cortex