Explain the process of "synaptic pruning" and describe why it is helpful to an infant's development.
What will be an ideal response?
- Babies are born with many more neurons than they need
- The brain has the capability of "pruning down" unnecessary neurons based on an infant's experiences in the world.
- The unnecessary neurons eventually die, which increases the efficiency of the remaining neurons in the nervous system.
- The result of synaptic pruning is to allow established neurons to build more elaborate communication networks with other neurons.
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A. information-processing B. top-down storage C. classical conditioning D. cognitive model proposed by Tolman
Warren is reviewing the approaches that have been taken to the diagnosis and treatment of childhood schizophrenia over the past century. He notices that some ideas receive initial research support and become popular, generate additional research and, when not supported, seem to largely die off while others continue to be supported and become dominant in the field. This best illustrates ____
a. research synthesis b. evolutionary epistemology c. the research continuum d. evidence-based practice
Thoughts, inferences, and mental associations may be mistaken for true memories due to
a. redintegration. b. elaborative processing. c. suppression. d. encoding failure.
Persecutory, grandiose, erotomanic, jealous, and somatic are the five types of
a. delusional disorders. b. dissociative disorders. c. personality disorders. d. schizophrenia.