What characterizes Parkinson's disease?
What will be an ideal response?
Parkinson's disease is characterized by a specific progression of motor symptoms including tremors, slowness of movement, difficulty initiating movement, rigidity, difficulty with balance, and a shuffling walk. Typically these symptoms occur in one part of the body and slowly spread to the extremities on the same side of the body before appearing on the opposite side of the body. Because the stiffness and rigidity are first located in one part of the body, individuals may assume that it is ordinary stiffness, perhaps the result of too much activity or simply because of aging. As the disease progresses, individuals have difficulties with balance and controlling their body movements. As neurons continue to degenerate, cognitive symptoms emerge. Brain functioning declines and cognitive and speech abilities deteriorate. Dementia appears in about three-quarters of patients, usually within 10 years after diagnosis.
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a. gender roles. b. gender-role stereotypes. c. gender types. d. gender identities.
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a. Jessica Mitford's The American Way of Death. b. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross's On Death and Dying. c. Herman Feifel's The Meaning of Death. d. Ernest Becker's The Denial of Death. e. Raymond Moody's Life After Life.
Who proposed that children learn not only words, but also grammar, via the mechanisms of operant and classical conditioning?
a. Skinner c. Piaget b. Vygotsky d. Freud