During early adolescence, boys' self-esteem is typically higher than that of girls
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Answer: True
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According to Maslow, which of the following has an "innocence of vision," like that of an artist or child, in which a sunset or a flower will be experienced as intensely time after time as it were the first time?
a. self-actualizer b. incongruent person c. savant d. person with cardinal traits
When Keller and Marian Breland, two psychologists who became animal trainers, decided that it would be cute to have a pig drop a big wooden coin into a box, they found that:
a. food was not an effective reinforcer for the pig and so learning didn't occur. b. when given edible roots as reinforcers, the pig learned the task in fewer than 10 trials. c. the pig was difficult to train because it kept dropping the coin, rooting, and throwing the coin in the air. d. the pig showed intrinsic interest in the task and so reinforcement was unnecessary.
Alcohol is implicated in about one in ______ deaths due to unintentional injury, such as
motor vehicle accidents. a. two c. four b. three d. five
Modern neuroscience research has shown that learning a new motor skill, such as juggling, and living in an enriched environment:
a. can make people more right-hemisphere dominant, and thus more creative. b. can help shift functions from damaged to undamaged brain regions, a phenomenon called functional plasticity. c. will reliably decrease average levels of GABA and acetylcholine. d. can affect brain structures, such as the number and shape of neuronal dendrites and axon terminals, and the number of glial cells.