During puberty, as neurons become more responsive to excitatory neurotransmitters, adolescents
A) react more strongly to stressful events and experience pleasurable stimuli more intensely.
B) have difficulty storing and retrieving long-term memories.
C) cope better with stressful events and rarely experience negative emotion.
D) become capable of reading and interpreting emotional cues.
A
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A. To maintain warmth B. To form the zygote C. To create the neural tube D. To provide nourishment
Regarding sexual orientation, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. Heredity may shape areas of the brain that orchestrate sexual behavior and sexual orientation. b. Some researchers estimate that sexual orientation is from 30 to 70 percent genetic. c. It is unlikely that parenting makes children homosexual since there is little difference in the development of children with gay or lesbian parents and those who have heterosexual parents. d. Homosexuality is caused by hormone imbalances in adulthood with the hormone levels of most gay men and lesbians being significantly below average.
List two reasons why people continue to smoke even knowing that it is bad for health. (2 points; 1 for each correct answer)
What will be an ideal response
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a. the hereditary aspects of one's emotional nature. b. unique and relatively stable behavior patterns. c. favorable and unfavorable personal characteristics. d. charisma, character, or temperament.