As correlation coefficients ____, the ability to predict one variable based on knowledge of the second variable increases
a. become positive
b. become negative
c. increase in strength
d. decrease in strength
C
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Dr. Benjamin Spock wrote a popular book for parents, providing information on what behaviors can be expected of typical infants at specific ages. This sort of publication primarily reflects which goal of developmental psychology?
a. Prediction b. Optimization c. Explanation d. Description
Major regulatory functions, including eating, drinking, sex, biorhythms, and temperature control, are managed primarily by the a. hypothalamus
b. thalamus. c. amygdala. d. hippocampus.
Long-term semantic memories seem to be located primarily in the ______
a. temporal lobe and frontal lobe b. parietal lobe and the prefrontal cortex c. hippocampus and the thalamus d. prefrontal cortex and the brain stem
By the end of the preschool period, the brain structure called the __________ becomes considerably thicker, with individual fibers that help coordinate brain functioning between the two hemispheres
a) cerebral cortex b) frontal lobe c) hypothalamus d) corpus callosum