Yun-Seo, who is 5 years old, begins her menstrual cycle and exhibits early signs of breast development. Pierre, a physician, conducts certain tests on her and concludes that Yun-Seo has attained precocious puberty. In this scenario, Pierre's goal of treating Yun-Seo's precocious puberty should be to ________.
A. promote her bone maturation
B. accelerate her hormonal secretion
C. short-circuit her growth period
D. reverse her sexual development
Answer: D
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A. Extrinsic; intrinsic B. Approach; avoidance C. Primary; secondary D. Drive-reduction; incentive
Miranda was in a terrible automobile accident and suffered extensive head injuries. Currently she has no cortical activity in her brain, but her brainstem activity continues. Her heartbeat and respirations occur on their own, but she demonstrates no consciousness or awareness of her surroundings. Miranda would best be described as experiencing a. whole-brain death
b. a persistent vegetative state. c. clinical death. d. natural death.
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A) girls B) boys C) children in first and second grades D) children in third, fourth, and fifth grades.
Suppose that you are looking at a flower garden containing dozens of yellow tulips and one red tulip, which seems to stand out conspicuously. According to Anne Treisman's theory, the explanation for this phenomenon is that
a. you probably searched all the tulips serially. b. focused attention drew your attention to the one discrepant feature. c. you automatically processed some featuresâ€"such as the color of the flowerâ€"during distributed attention. d. you were searching for a conjunction of two properties.