The best predictor of the development of chronic traumatic brain injury in boxers is
a. the use of protective headgear
b. the weight class of the boxer.
c. their genetic makeup.
d. the win-loss record of the boxer.
c
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An information-processing theorist would most likely conceptualize all built-in neural structures that assist the operations of the mind as a. mental hardware
b. private speech. c. mental software. d. psychodynamic mechanisms.
A type of language disorder in which the pathway between thought and speech is disrupted in some way is referred to as a(n) ______.
a. agnosia b. atrasia c. aphasia d. amnesia
When a young child discovers that simply changing the shape of an object does not necessarily change the amount of the object (e.g., a flattened ball of clay contains the same amount of clay as when it was rolled into a ball), the child is showing an understanding of
a. object permanence. b. accommodation. c. assimilation. d. conservation.
When people hear a sound, their ears turn the vibrations in the air into neural messages from the auditory nerve, which makes it possible for the brain to interpret the sound. This process is called __________
a) encoding b) storage c) retrieval d) evaluation