After a motorcycle accident in which she wasn't wearing a helmet, Vanessa has difficulty responding emotionally to unpleasant stimuli. Vanessa most likely experienced damage to which brain structure?
a. medulla
b. amygdala c. thalamus
d. hippocampus e. cerebellum
b
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A) maintaining positive social relationships B) ending a stressful marriage C) meditation D) moving away from the population centres
Julio's grandmother has Alzheimer's disease and has trouble remembering things. A psychologist would describe her as experiencing:
a. pathological aging c. genetic senility b. geriatric decline d. normal aging
Which of the following is listed as a criticism of the guilty but mentally ill (GBMI) verdict?
A. It requires jurors to make the difficult distinction between mental illness that results in insanity and mental illness that does not. B. It has not lived up to the promise that mentally ill offenders would be more likely to receive treatment. C. There seems to be no difference in treatment or outcome of those found GBMI and those simply found guilty. D. all of the above
What is the proper sequence traveled by an olfactory stimulus?
a) receptor, olfactory bulb, amygdala, thalamus b) receptor, thalamus, amygdala, olfactory bulb c) thalamus, receptor, olfactory bulb, amygdala d) olfactory bulb, receptor, amygdala, thalamus