Tera has a disorder that is untreatable and produces blindness and muscle degeneration prior to death. What disorder does Tera have?
A. fragile X syndrome
B. Tay-Sachs disease
C. Klinefelter's syndrome
D. hemophilia
Answer: B
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Which of the following topics has been the topic of the most heated debate among psychologists?
a. Whether it is better to study something all at once or break it into many short sessions b. Whether it is ethical to study memory development in elementary school children c. Whether implicit memories can influence people's behavior without their awareness d. Whether therapists can help patients accurately recover lost memories
In E. C. Tolman's experiment, some rats were trained to run through mazes for standard food goals, while other rats were allowed to explore the mazes for 10 days without food goals or other rewards. Later, when food rewards were placed in a box at the far end of the maze, the previously unrewarded rats reached the food box as quickly as the rewarded rats after only one or two trials. This
experiment demonstrated that the rats had the ability to form _____ of their surroundings. A) observational models B) operant chambers C) cognitive maps D) orienting reflexes
A psychologist visiting a classroom concludes that one of the children is depressed because the child is quiet and unresponsive. Actually, the child has the flu. The psychologist has made what error?
a. failure to distinguish correlation from causation b. failure to distinguish inference from observation c. failure to use experimental controls d. failure to obtain a representative sample
Down syndrome is also known as trisomy-21 because individuals with Down syndrome ____.
A. have three distinct facial features by the 21st week of pregnancy B. show three distinct temperament patterns by the 21st week of infancy C. have a third chromosome on the 21st pair D. have 21 genes on the 3rd pair of chromosomes