Why do contemporary neuroscientists believe that the cerebellum is responsible for much more than balance and motor coordination?
What will be an ideal response?
This answer will typically focus on the fact that the size of the cerebellum has kept pace with the cerebral hemispheres in the course of evolution and that damage and abnormalities in the cerebellum are associated with problems with higher order cognitive and executive functioning.
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Social psychologists sometimes use the Indonesian term ____________________ to refer to the idea of becoming wildly and uncontrollably violent and destructive, or "going berserk."
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
A cerebral vascular accident is also known as a stroke
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Which statement best characterizes the consensus on the status of Freud's theory of personality?
a. His theory is generally correct, with minor exceptions. b. He is considered a fraud and his ideas are considered worthless. c. Some of his ideas have been widely accepted and others have been abandoned. d. It has been impossible to evaluate any of Freud's ideas through empirical scrutiny.
The notion that physiological arousal is not the result of an emotional experience but is instead the sole mechanism that produces an emotional experience is referred to as the ______ of emotion.
A. Schacter-Singer theory B. Behavioral theory C. Cannon theory D. James-Lange theory