According to the social brain hypothesis, what would be an accurate prediction?
a. The part of the brain that is stimulated by pleasure-enhancing drugs is equally stimulated by time spent withother people
b. Human beings were not capable of complex social behavior prior to the evolutionary development of certainbrain structures.
c. Antagonistic neurotransmitter release is heightened when we are around other people and suppressed whenwe are alone.
d. A species of gorillas where the members form a social community should have bigger brains than othergorillas whose members live independently of each other.
b
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A. two B. three C. five D. six
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a. toddlerhood b. anal c. oedipal d. infancy
A pediatric nurse strokes the bottom of a newborn's foot, and the toes fan upward. Which reflex was elicited, and what does it tell us about the baby's health?
a) The startle response tells us the baby may have a hearing deficit. b) The Moro reflex suggests the baby needs immediate medical attention. c) The Babinski reflex suggests the baby has a normal central nervous system. d) The rooting reflex tells us the baby probably suffered central nervous system damage.
If you think of cognitive processing as a type of information processing, then the brain is the ______ and the cognitive processes themselves are the ______.
A. hardware; software B. response; stimulus C. software; hardware D. stimulus; response