In the 19th century, a common treatment for abnormal behavior was

(a) drug therapy
(b) to lock the person up
(c) Freudian psychoanalysis
(d) intervention by a psychiatric social worker
(e) all or any of the above


B

Psychology

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a. Immigrants do worse in school than lifelong residents with the same IQ score. b. Immigrants do about the same in school as lifelong residents with the same IQ score. c. Immigrants succeed in school better than lifelong residents with the same IQ score. d. Immigrants' scores tend to increase if they take the same test twice.

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Velishea has severe epileptic seizures that cannot be controlled by medication. Therefore, her doctor suggests that a surgery might help. The surgery would involve

a. cutting the corpus callosum. b. removing the hippocampus. c. stimulating the brain's pleasure centers. d. severing the connection between the prefrontal lobe and the hypothalamus.

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________ proposed that people have biologically predetermined mental structures that allow humans to comprehend and produce speech

a. Noam Chomsky b. Jean Piaget c. B.F. Skinner d. John Bowlby e. Mary Ainsworth

Psychology

Long-term potentiation may involve the formation of __________ within the postsynaptic dendrite, which then acts on the presynaptic element to increase the release of __________.

A. nitric oxide; glutamate B. nitrous oxide synthase; GABA C. nitric oxide; aspartate D. nitrous oxide synthase; glycine

Psychology