A 13-year-old breaks up with his first girlfriend, and he is very upset. No one can console him, because he believes that no one else has ever been hurt as badly as he has. The boy's beliefs are consistent with
A. separation anxiety.
B. prepubertal romance.
C. transductive reasoning.
D. adolescent egocentrism.
Answer: D
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A) visual illusions are caused by faulty thinking. B) the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. C) images are produced in different parts of the brain. D) hallucinations are the result of a chemical imbalance in the brain.
Olney's concept of excitotoxicity suggests that most neural death in ischemia is due to
A. excess cholinergic activity. B. insufficient gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) activity. C. insufficient glutamate activity. D. excess glutamate activity.
The fear of technology is known as
a. computeritis b. technophobia c. electronosis d. decidophobia
Suppose you examine an ultrasound image of a fetus, who is sucking her right thumb. Generalizing from research presented in the text, what is the probability that this fetus will be right-handed at age 15?
a. about 50% b. about 67% c. about 85 % d. about 100%