List the four important issues of lifespan development
What will be an ideal response?
1) Continuity versus discontinuity; 2) The importance of critical and sensitive periods; 3) Whether to focus on certain periods or on the entire life span; and 4) The nature versus nurture controversy.
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Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1. Most people would be incredibly accurate at matching names to faces from their high school yearbook, even decades after they graduated 2. Long-term memories tend to be stored in the hippocampus 3. Patient HM's memory loss was primarily due to the removal of a large section of the prefrontal cortex in an attempt to stop seizure activity 4. Because he suffered from anterograde amnesia, patient HM was unable to transfer new information from short-term into long-term memory 5. Patient HM developed anterograde amnesia due to brain trauma from a near-fatal automobile accident
Vocabulary tests primarily measure ________________ intelligence
A) crystallized B) fluid C) creative D) existential
For young people, the transition to sexualized relationships including learning the art of flirtation, practicing how toapproach, and learning the rules of engagement between the sexes is influenced by
A. reading "how to" books. B. what they learn in the classroom. C. the norms of the peer group and the community. D. innate reflexes that become manifest at puberty.
Because men can father a child well into old age, they experience no real changes as their testosterone levels gradually decline.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)