Late on Saturday night, Dennie is taken to the hospital after drinking twenty beers. His confusion, rambling, and incoherent speech stop as soon as the alcohol is out of his system. This incident illustrates ____
a. an amnestic disorder
b. dementia
c. delirium
d. a neurocognitive disorder not otherwise specified
C
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A researcher finds that, on average, the firstborns at one high school have higher grades than second- and third-born children. Other than birth order, what else might explain this result?
a. Children who get good grades in elementary school tend to do well in high school also. b. Some parents give their children more attention than others do c. More recent generations tend to do better on tests than those born earlier. d. More recent generations tend to do better on tests than those born earlier.
Both Kurt and Magda survived airplane crashes. Both experience intrusive memories of the event as well as extreme anxiety and dissociative episodes. One might be diagnosed with acute stress disorder and the other with posttraumatic stress disorder if ____
a. one experiences anxiety and the other does not b. one relives the experience and the other does not c. one has had symptoms for more than thirty days and the other has not d. one experiences panic attacks and the other does not
Although phrenology is mostly wrong, what did phrenologists get right about the nervous system? a. The ventricles play a major role in the transmission of messages in the brain. b. Sensation and movement have separate pathways
c. Neurons communicate using electrical signals. d. Some functions can be localized in the brain.
Which of the following vocal characteristics is listed in the textbook as a feature of elderspeak?
use of higher frequencies faster speech bigger words lower pitch