Which of the following brain mechanisms have been implicated in anorexia?
a) Starvation releases natural pain-reducing opioids producing a high, which reinforces not eating.
b) With puberty, female hormones increase dramatically and damage centers which control eating in the thalamus and pituitary.
c) Excessive exercise depletes the brain of neurotransmitters utilized by areas that regulate hunger or satiation.
d) Stress-released hormones reduce the sensitivity of receptors that detect blood-sugar levels and release hormones that induce hunger.
a
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The ability to isolate variables and investigate all possible combinations of variables was thought by Inhelder and Piaget to emerge in the stage of ________________
a. concrete operations b. formal operations c. reversible operations d. logical operations
Piaget described human thought in terms of two basic concepts:
a. logic and reason. c. adaptation and affordances. b. logic and emotion. d. assimilation and accommodation.
Cohort differences are among the factors that account for age-related variation in adult intelligence
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Elaboration is defined as
a. dealing with information logically and rationally. b. repeating the information over and over. c. studying the information right before bedtime. d. associating new information with information already in storage.