What are two types of prenatal experience associated with increased risk of schizophrenia?
What will be an ideal response?
Two of: 1. flu virus - elevated risk in children whose mothers had the flu during the second trimester. 2. Rh incompatibility - elevated risk in children. 3. Early prenatal nutritional deficiency. All compromise fetal development, especially brain development.
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The "blind spot" is so called because it:
A) has cones but no rods. B) has rods but no cones. C) has neither rods nor cones. D) is found in the periphery of the eye.
Savant behaviors occur a. only in individuals with autism spectrum disorder
b. in the majority of individuals with autism spectrum disorder and mental retardation. c. in people whose intellectual function is normally in the intellectual disability range d. only in people who have experienced brain damage.
In many patched-up designs, researchers systematically increase the number of _____________ in a quasi-experimental design
A) experimental groups B) independent variables C) dependent variables D) control groups
Research shows some of the relationship costs that arise when adolescents strive for independence. Still, adolescents' conflicts with their parents often do not lead to harmful consequences. Smetana et al. (2006) report that most adolescents
a. are able to use their parents as ready sources of practical and emotional support. b. do not use their parents as ready sources of practical and emotional support. c. feel that their parents are indifferent to them. d. feel that their parents simply do not understand them.