What kind of research was Oliver Sacks doing when he went to the island of
Pingelap?
(a) quasi-experimental research
(b) correlational research
(c) field research
(d) case study
C
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In the context of memory and forgetting, one of the cognitive explanations for infantile amnesia states that:
A) infants are likely to fantasize and add false details when remembering the past. B) infants tend to weave episodes together into meaningful stories of their own lives. C) infants do not make reliable use of language to symbolize or classify events. D) infants do not have any ability to decode sensory input, which allows them to constantly change their memories.
When two variables are not related, the correlation coefficient will be close to
a. .00. b. –1.00. c. +1.00. d. +.50.
Piaget's theory of cognitive development has been criticized on all of the following grounds
EXCEPT that it a. lacks clear operational definitions of important terms. b. underestimates the child's capacity for seeing the world from another's point of view. c. underestimates the child's capacity for conservation. d. is not supported by research with proper experimental controls. e. is gender-biased, since its focus is on boys alone.
Regarding brain cells regeneration and repair, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. Saltatory conduction is the approach in which a patient's good arm is restrained in order to force his or her impaired arm to be more active with a resulting increase in neurogenesis in the damaged part of the brain. b. Approaches involving neurogenesis are offering hope for persons suffering from a variety of disabilities, such as depression, addiction, and schizophrenia. c. A healthy 75-year-old brain has just as many neurons as it did when it was 25-year-old. d. Although the brain loses cells daily, it simultaneously grows new neurons to replace them.