Donovan had a stroke last year, and doctors were unsure whether he would ever fully recover. Donovan did very little physical exercise to speed up his recovery, but the damaged cells in his nervous system still managed to regenerate and reestablish their network connections. Donovan's system has a naturally high level of
A. neural plasticity.
B. lateral dominance.
C. autoimmune functioning.
D. autonomic restructuring.
Answer: A
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a. younger children insist that personality traits must be mutually exclusive. b. older children are more flexible in their gender-stereotyping of traits. c. younger girls insist that personality traits must be mutually exclusive. d. older children recognize that personality traits are mutually exclusive according to gender.
Charlie has noticed that she can resist the dessert table at the buffet when she first passes it, but the more she passes it, the harder it becomes. The text describes this as:
a. the strength model of self-control b. using brute self-control c. self-control fatigue d. all of these
Miles took a personality assessment test and the results indicated he was a stable, outgoing extrovert. Six weeks later he took the same test only this time the results indicated he was moody, difficult to get along with and socially withdrawn
The test Miles has taken is __________ a) not valid. b) not reliable. c) biased. d) non-standardized.
According to Erikson, young people are not capable of truly loving someone until they have developed ______
a. compassion c. formal operations b. sexual maturity d. a sense of identity