What is the leading chronic health condition affecting people in late adulthood?
A. diabetes
B. arthritis
C. hypertension
D. heart disease
Answer: C
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When the teacher was handing out the test, you noticed that your respiration rate and heartbeat increased, your palms got sweaty, and your hand shook a little; your pretest behaviors were triggered by the ________. Upon completion of the exam, your body returned to its normal state by way of the ________.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Before choosing which experiment condition a participant belongs in, the researcher flips a coin. What is the researcher likely doing?
A. eliminating all confounding variables B. assigning the participant to the control group C. assigning the participant to the experimental group D. randomly assigning the participant to a condition
Jerzy suffers brain damage after falling off his bed. Now, whenever someone tells him something, Jerzy remembers it only briefly. He still believes he is eight, the age he was when he fell off the bed, even though years have passed. Jerzy's condition, anterograde amnesia, demonstrates that sometimes information can fail to be transferred from ____ memory to ____ memory.?
a. ?episodic; procedural b. ?short-term; long-term c. ?preliminary; consolidated d. ?sensory; working
Trevor and Julia were walking one night when they heard a loud crash. Trevor was convinced the sound came from directly in front of them and Julia was convinced the sound came from directly behind them. The reason they might have difficulty localizing the sound is:
a. we are able to judge distance better than direction for sounds b. sound localization is more difficult when it is dark c. the sound waves would have arrived at both ears at the same instant d. the sound did not involve speech, and only speech can be accurately localized