Norah is an extremely sedentary preschooler. Her favorite activities are watching television and playing computer games. Recently, her pediatrician assessed her body mass index which lay above the 85th percentile. From this information, we can say that Norah would be categorized as _____.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).


at-risk of being overweight

Psychology

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Which of the following children would be described as being of "average" height and weight at birth?

a. Ava, who is in the 25th percentile b. Chase, who is in the 33rd percentile c. Steven, who is in the 50th percentile d. Erin, who is in the 75th percentile

Psychology

An event or behavior that has at least two values is a _____

a. hypothesis b. theory c. variable d. constant

Psychology

Claire was born prematurely and at risk because of her low birth weight. However, stimulating her sense of ________ helped accelerate her weight gain

a. taste c. vision b. smell d. touch

Psychology

In a study by Cappelletti et al. (2008) described by your authors, the different parts of the brain associated with producing spoken nouns and spoken verbs were examined

Which of the following techniques was used to temporarily lesion specific brain areas in this study? a. fMRI b. rTMS c. EMG d. SPECT

Psychology