What are mirror neurons, and what role might they play in particular emotions?
What will be an ideal response?
Mirror neurons are neurons that respond both when we engage in a specific act and while observing the same act in others. Observing another person's emotional expressions activates emotional areas in our own brains, and the amount of activity is related to scores on a measure of empathy.
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The correlation between two variables is a measure of the degree to which
a. points cluster together around some best-fitting straight line. b. differences in one variable can be predicted from differences in the other variable. c. one variable varies with the other variable. d. all of the above
According to the text, neural reaction to sexual images is positively correlated with high-risk sexual behaviors. What does this association show?
A. Sexual images cause high-risk sexual behaviors. B. High-risk sexual behaviors cause increased sensitivity to sexual images. C. As neural reaction to sexual images increase, so does the likelihood of high-risk sexual behaviors. D. As favorable reactions to sexual images increase, so does the likelihood of high-risk sexual behaviors.
Recent research suggests that severe migraine headaches may involve a ____
a. structural change in brain b. autonomic stress response c. stimulus specificity d. somatic weakness
In 1977, the Apple II came with 16 K of RAM. In 2004, the iBook G4 came with 256 MB of RAM. That's a huge increase in memory capacity! This example demonstrates the evolutionary process called the ___
a. ratchet effect b. zone of proximal development c. scaffolding phenomenon d. tool mediating system