Garfield is having great difficulty controlling his appetite. All he wants to do is eat and no matter how much he eats he is still hungry
His weight is approaching 400 pounds and he still constantly wants to eat. His physician says the problem is due to a disorder in a specific center of the brain. The brain center is most likely the
a. medulla
b. cerebral cortex
c. thalamus
d. hypothalamus
Answer d % correct 51 a= 0 b= 10 c= 39 d= 51 r = .28
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Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
Magnetic resonance imagery is a method used to __________
a. measure voltage in a single neuron b. create a three-dimensional image of the brain c. determine which chemicals are active at a given synapse d. none of these
In research conducted by Sodian and Kristen-Antonov (2015) which provided evidence consistent with the position that joint attention and referential communication are necessary skills in the development of more advanced forms of theory of mind. What was indicated in their short-term longitudinal study where they assessed infants on a series of social-cognitive tasks from 12 to 50 months?
A. They reported that 12-month-old infants’ imperative pointing predicted children’s performance well before 50 months. B. Tasks garnered at 50 months were a direct result of the infants’ ability to predict how well they imperatively point. C. They reported that 12-month-old infants’ declarative pointing—intended to convey information about a target object and thus a form of referential communication—predicted children’s performance on theory-of-mind tasks at 50 months. D. Nothing could be determined with regard to social-cognitive tasks as this does not appear until after the age of 60 months.
Gestalt psychologists hold a fundamental belief that
A) personality is static after the age of six. B) mental illness is rooted in childhood trauma. C) everyone is inherently good. D) people are more than the sum of their parts. E) life is what you make it.