What factor may account for the dramatic rise in the rate of depression over the last century?
a) a lack of clarity regarding changes in gender roles
b) absence of close family and community ties which may be preventative
c) increased pressure placed upon us by a technologically advancing society
d) greater amount of environmental pollutants that interfere with body chemistry
b
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Learning is described as a relatively permanent change in behavior because __________.
A. it is thought that learning changes the nerve fiber patterns in your muscles B. once you learn something, you will never fail to remember it or carry out the correct action C. it is thought that when learning occurs, those behaviors become fixed in your brain D. memory processes, unlike learning processes, are not permanent
The blind spot in the eye is
a. where photoreceptor cells do not "bleach.". b. the point at which ganglion cells synapse with bipolar cells. c. where the optic nerve exits the back of the eye. d. what leads to color blindness.
As the cliché goes, "be it ever so humble, there's no place like home!" The underlying meaning of this saying is really addressing a person's sense of a. stead
b. place. c. family. d. warmth.
One key difference between formal operational thought and concrete operational thought is that formal operational thinkers
a. show more centration. b. can apply thoughts to real objects. c. can solve conservation tasks. d. can think about hard to imagine hypotheticals.