Which statement is false about the brains of people who are high in neuroticism?
a. After feeling fear, their brains take longer to calm down than people who are low in neuroticism.
b. They experience a mild response in their amygdala when exposed to fearful stimuli.
c. They are prone to notice things that are strange, unusual, or surprising.
d. They show strong activation in brain areas associated with self-evaluation and fear.
Answer: B: They experience a mild response in their amygdala when exposed to fearful stimuli.
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a. Psychodynamic therapies are helpful. b. Antipsychotics can cure even severe ASDs. c. Antidepressants typically make ASDs far worse. d. There is probably no one "magic pill."
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a. ?interference b. ?repression c. ?cue-dependent d. ?decay
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A. the vast majority of children who had been thiamine-deficient in their first year displayed language deficits, even though their thiamine intake had been adequate from toddlerhood on B. the vast majority of children who had been thiamine-deficient in their first year displayed language deficits in grammar but not vocabulary recall C. only the children who had been thiamine-deficient for their entire lives displayed language deficits D. following a period of thiamine deficiency, adequate thiamine intake makes language deficits greater than they would have been if thiamine intake had been unchanged
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A. concordance rate B. cohort effect C. specificity D. heritability