Maguire and colleagues' MRI study of London taxi drivers found a positive correlation
between the ability to navigate the city's streets and the size of
a. the visual cortex.
b. the visual association cortex.
c. a hippocampal region.
d. the corpus callosum.
e. a motorcortical area.
c. a hippocampal region.
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When five-year-old Monarch says, "Butterflies exist to make the world more beautiful for people to look at," she is providing a great example of a. the core knowledge hypothesis. b. a teleological explanation
c. an orienting response. d. intersubjectivity.
Which part of the brain stores lasting verbal memories and helps us navigate through space?
a. amygdala b. hypothalamus c. pons d. hippocampus
Kim was adopted as a baby and raised by loving parents in an enriched environment. Studies have shown that ________
a. the intelligence of adopted children is more highly correlated with their biologically unrelated parents than their birth parents. b. for adults, heritability estimates average around .15 to .20. c. the scores of fraternal twins reared together are more highly correlated than the scores of identical twins reared apart. d. as adopted children grow into adulthood, the correlation between their IQ scores and those of their biologically unrelated family members diminishes to zero.
What is social competence? What factors are responsible for it?
What will be an ideal response?