Which of the following structures plays an important role in the rewarding effects of food, sex, and drugs?

a. The brain stem
b. Both the inferior and superior colliculi
c. The substantia nigra
d. The ventral tegmental area


D

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Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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Professor Lundberg starts his lecture with, "Today, we are going to examine psychometrics.". Which of the following props is Professor Lundberg most likely to have brought to class with him today?

a. William James' early writings c. a model of the brain b. a video on Sigmund Freud d. the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale

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Which of the following is not true of verbal repairs?

a. They reflect children's inability to be sensitive to their listeners. b. They are the adjustment of speech when children make errors in communication. c. They tend to increase over the preschool and into the early school years. d. They decrease from middle childhood into adolescence.

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Studies indicate that early styles of temperament

a. are relatively stable and may have far-reaching implications for cognitive and social functioning later in life. b. are fairly unstable and are predictive only of parent-child relations until the children reach about six years of age. c. have no predictive power. d. are good predictors of child behavior until children enter school.

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