Which is the best characterization of intellectual functioning in adulthood?
a. The time in history in which someone is born does not impact his or her intellect.
b. Remaining cognitively active does little to stem the natural loss of intellectual skills associated with aging.
c. Early education levels have little impact on adult levels of intelligence.
d. Declines are not universal.
d
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What will be an ideal response?
Milgram's study of obedience to authority, in which subjects thought they were shocking other subjects, raised questions about which two ethical concerns?
a. deception and voluntary participation b. voluntary participation and lasting harm to subjects c. lasting harm to subjects and deception d. confidentiality and invasion of privacy
A newspaper story described a 26-year-old man who has an intense desire to change his physical sex. In the account, the reporter wrote that she asked a physician for the appropriate term to describe this man. What term was used?
a) transsexual b) transvestite c) homosexual d) pseudohermaphrodite
PET scan studies ______.
a. show that short-term memory function is contained within the frontal lobes b. show that long-term memories are stored in the frontal lobe c. demonstrate that massive brain damage in several regions is necessary to cause amnesia d. support Baddeley’s notion that verbal and spatial working memory are different systems