The ability of environmental stimuli to produce changes in brain wiring:
A) increases with age until adolescence.
B) increases across the lifespan.
C) is relatively unaffected by age.
D) decreases with age.
D) decreases with age.
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Which of the following is FALSE regarding sensory receptors?
a. They are specialized cells. b. They allow us to detect difference thresholds but not absolute thresholds. c. They are located in sensory organs. d. They detect stimuli from the environment. e. They convert external stimuli into neural impulses used to create sensations.
Researchers, such as Buell & Coleman, who have autopsied brains, have found that when older brains and younger brains are compared, the dendrites in the elderly brains:
a. are significantly shorter and less complex b. are no different than the dendrites in younger brains c. are significantly longer and more complex d. are significantly longer but far less complex, with fewer branches
Use Erikson’s psychosocial stages of development (especially the fourth through the eighth) to analyze Roger’s life.
What will be an ideal response?
Research on postformal thinking suggests that ____.?
a. ?adolescence may not really be a separate stage of development b. ?postformal thought is the most advanced form of thought c. ?Piaget’s four stages may not describe all levels of cognitive development d. ?adolescents and adults have more in common with each other than commonly believed