Discuss the role of the left and right hemispheres in recognition and expression of emotions.
What will be an ideal response?
The specialization of the cerebral hemispheres we have seen in other functions is also evident in emotion. Although both hemispheres are involved in the experience of emotions, the left frontal area is more active when the person is experiencing positive emotions, and the right frontal area is more active during negative emotion.
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What is problematic about the legal criteria used to determine degrees of visual impairment, especially with regard to the development of children?
A. No consistent federal guidelines for classifying visual impairment have been adopted. B. Determining impairment is based on the judgment of a family physician, and that judgment may be flawed due to lack of training or special considerations. C. Most insurance companies don't reimburse for corrective lenses; therefore, children and their parents are reluctant to admit to visual difficulties. D. The criteria pertain solely to distance vision, whereas children with visual difficulties usually engage in close-up visual tasks in the classroom.
Serious restriction of food intake that increases over time, combined with being deliberately underweight, having an intense fear of gaining weight, and a distorted perception of one's body, describes
a. anorexia nervosa, restricting subtype. b. anorexia nervosa, purging subtype. c. bulimia nervosa, restricting subtype. d. bulimia nervosa, compensating subtype.
Which is the most accuratestatement about prejudice?
a. Healthy competition with members of other groups serves as an outlet to discharge prejudicial feelings. b. The tendency to affiliate with a group is accompanied by the tendency to be suspicious of others outside the group. c. The increased use of heuristics would decrease errors in judgments about other people. d. We are more likely to form prejudices against people who are similar to ourselves. e. Intergroup cooperation has little to no effect on decreasing prejudice.
Mice who received a paired tone and shock 20 times and the
same tone with no shock 20 times were not successfully conditioned to fear the tone. Mice who received a shock every time the tone sounded were conditioned to fear the tone. This observation supports the _____ theory of classical conditioning. a) Pavlovian b) cognitive c) emotion-based d) original