Ms. Castle is in the early stages of dementia. Which of the following is most characteristic of the symptoms she is likely to exhibit?
a. She shows writhing movements.
b. She cannot be understood when she speaks.
c. She can't remember the new neighbor she met yesterday.
d. She can't remember the name of the town she grew up in.
Answer: c.
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a. receptors, occipital lobe, temporal lobe. b. receptors, temporal lobe, frontal lobe. c. sensory memory, short-term memory, long-term memory. d. sensory memory, iconic memory, rehearsal.
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a. incentives b. drives c. instincts d. conditioned stimuli
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A) indirect observations of events B) supernatural phenomena C) philosophical reasoning D) the scientific method
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a. extinguished, because he feels anxious after doing so. b. recovered spontaneously, because he will never get better. c. positively reinforced, because he is rewarded by his anxiety going down. d. negatively reinforced, because he is rewarded by his anxiety going down. e. positively reinforced, because he will lose his fear of spiders in the long run.