Imagine you are a neurological researcher looking at a PET scan of a 16-year-old boy. Compared to the brain scan of an 8-year-old girl, you'd most likely see
a. increased frontal lobe.
b. a larger cerebellum.
c. decreased myelination.
d. a smaller hypothalamus.
Answer: b.
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What is the best advice concerning the accuracy of preschoolers' eyewitness testimony?
a. Leading questions improve accuracy of responding. b. If it is a memory for a traumatic event, it is definitely a real memory. c. It is very difficult to create a situation where preschool children do not accurately recall basic events like field trips. d. Under conditions of questioning with lots of open-ended questions, memory accuracy will likely decline.
Conditioned responses can persist for months or years. But what happens if a conditioned stimulus is repeatedly presented without the unconditioned stimulus?
a. Stimulus distinction b. Extinction c. Spontaneous recovery d. Stimulus generalization
Why does self-esteem decrease from early childhood to middle childhood?
What will be an ideal response?
The __________ hypothesis suggests that bilinguals' constant need to monitor and control their languages leads to benefits in nonverbal cognition.
a. adaptive control b. dual route c. source monitoring d. weaker links