Development in what allows children in middle childhood to respond rapidly to changing information, like hitting a tennis ball or catching a baseball?
a. reaction time
b. eye-hand coordination
c. myelination
d. muscular virility
Answer: A
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A. His roommate, because his yell clearly indicated that he was experiencing a negative mood. B. His roommate, because all people who make mistakes experience subsequent negative moods. C. Tommy, because only he can have an idea about what mood he is experiencing at any given time. D. Tommy, because he was experiencing an emotion and not necessarily a mood.
Alex is studying classical conditioning and asks the teacher, "Why does my brain not need to tell my knee to flex when the doctor hits it with a rubber hammer?" The teacher replies that reflexes are automatic because they are a(n):
A. conditioned response. B. unconditioned response. C. discriminated stimulus. D. generalized stimulus.
A new noninvasive/nonsurgical treatment that has shown success as an adjunct therapy together with cognitive therapy to treat compulsive gambling is
a. transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). b. eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR). c. deep brain stimulation (DBS). d. electroconvulsive therapy (ECT).