All but which of the following cognitive abilities generally decline after early adulthood?
a. rapid problem solving
b. memory for newly acquired information
c. perception of relationships among patterns d. rapid abstract reasoning
e. application of acquired knowledge
e
You might also like to view...
It is possible to predict (with moderate accuracy) people's political attitudes toward the use of the military, the death penalty, and so forth by monitoring which of the following?
a. differences in fMRI response between the left and right hemispheres b. size of the hippocampus c. amygdala responses to a sudden loud noise d. fluctuations in testosterone levels between morning and evening
A hallmark of experimental studies is a. the manipulation of time in the presentation of the materials to the subject. b. the manipulation of only one variable as often as possible to determine the effects of thatvariable
c. the manipulation of every variable at each stage of the experiment. d. the manipulation of one or more factors and observation of how these manipulations change the behavior under investigation.
The term evolution __________.
A. cannot involve genetic mutations B. can occur in the absence of natural selection C. implies genetic similarity D. refers to a gradual change in the structure and function of a species
Young children's ability to comprehend language:
A. are generally ahead of their ability to produce the same language. B. develop at exactly the same rate as their ability to produce language since both depend on the same underlying representations. C. are extremely difficult to test and have been very little studied. D. show that children comprehend very little of the language they hear or produce.