In the first few years of life, the brain is ________
A) highly plastic
B) totally plastic
C) more lateralized than at any other period
D) unable to recover from injury
Answer: A
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The form of behavioral therapy in which an undesirable behavior is paired with an unpleasant stimulus to reduce the frequency of the behavior is called __________.
A. a token economy B. operant conditioning C. aversion therapy D. participant modeling
The main way to tell if someone is having a panic attack, rather than just being in a state of fear, is __________.
A. whether they think about what is happening B. whether they show physiological changes such as increased heart rate C. whether they have a subjective belief that something awful is about to happen D. whether they feel a strong urge to flee
Results from the Camberwell Cohort study indicated that for adults diagnosed with intellectual disabilities in early life, the
a. majority of symptoms disappeared by adolescence. b. original diagnosis had been change by middle age. c. overall quality of their lives was lower than that of non-impaired peers. d. level of impact on their lives was unrelated to the severity of the disability.
Which of the following concepts does the all-or-none law describe?
A. All dendrites must be hyperpolarized before a neuron fires. B. All neurons in a nerve fire or none of them fires. C. The size of an action potential does not depend on the amplitude of the stimulus that started it. D. The frequency at which a neuron fires is independent of the intensity of the stimulus.