A teacher wants to help her students better understand the repetitive physical behaviors sometimes displayed by people with autism. The best explanation, in everyday language, is that this "stimming" behavior serves the same purpose as
A. going jogging to warm up before competing in a baseball game.
B. wearing earplugs on a noisy airplane flight.
C. squinting at a sign printed in small font.
D. turning up the volume of a hard-to-hear song on the radio.
Answer: B
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a. history b. selection bias c. practice d. fatigue
The _____ lobe processes information about touch.
A) frontal B) occipital C) temporal D) parietal
In Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory, all the social systems that children are not regularly part of, but that still influence their lives are part of the
a. exosystem. c. mesosystem. b. macrosystem. d. chronosystem.
The outer hair cells may be involved in ______.
A. sharpening and amplifying sound B. processing high- but not low-frequency sounds C. processing sounds related to language but not music D. all of these