Following a stroke that affected his balance and muscle strength, Jose participated in 3 months of physical therapy. Today, Jose feels as strong as he did before the stroke and walks at least ten miles a week for exercise. Jose's ability to overcome his physical limitations after his stroke is an example of ______.
A. normalization
B. plasticity
C. neuroscience
D. specialization
Answer: B
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a. matching hypothesis. b. propinquity hypothesis. c. attitude-behavior consistency principle. d. attributional outcome principle.
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a. workers in the special test room came to outperform workers in the control room. b. workers in the control room actually outperformed workers in the test room. c. neither group of workers showed an increase in productivity. d. both groups of workers showed an increase in productivity.
When comparing language production and language comprehension,
a. there is no general pattern; development depends on the particular item or syntactic structure being factually considered. b. production and comprehension generally proceed at about the same rate. c. production is generally ahead of comprehension. d. comprehension is typically ahead of production.
The term self-care child for children that spend time alone unsupervised is preferred over the former term latchkey child because
a. the term latchkey children raises negative connotations. b. the term self-care child raises neutral connotations. c. both terms raise negative connotations. d. latchkey is synonymous with neglect.