A common brain change in people with dementia is due to plaques made up of certain proteins that accumulate into spaces between neurons in the brain, specifically,
a. neuritic plaques.
b. fibrillatory plaques.
c. dementing plaques.
d. neurological plaques.
a
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a. agonists b. antagonists c. hormones d. antioxidants
Brooke drinks so much coffee that she feels jittery while she is studying for her exam. Under these circumstances, what might Brooke do just before the exam to increase her recall?
a. Take a nap so that she will feel rested after her late study sessions. b. Review the information in the same place she studied the night before. c. Review the information near the room in which the exam will be given. d. Drink enough coffee to give herself the jitters again.
Being able to imagine many possible outcomes:
a. causes most adolescents to think more narrow-mindedly. b. may cause anxiety in some adolescents. c. usually leads to catastrophic thinking. d. all of these
A theory of human behavior that proposed that the kinds of reinforcement an individual has experienced in past social contexts will determine how that individual will act in a given situation is known as ____ theory
A. stimulus matching B. two-action C. mind-blindness D. social-learning