The two words that best describe how the brain changes during adolescence are:
a. pruning and myelination
b. birth and death
c. expansion and growth
d. little or none
a
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Psychologists use the term emotional __________ to refer to our abilities to understand and monitor our emotional experience and to engage in appropriate behavior when we are distressed.
A. intelligence B. lability C. regulation D. appraisal
Kelly has been feeling very sad for a month. Her sadness is so pronounced that she has not showered for days on end, sometimes has forgotten to eat, and has not been interested in doing anything. Kelly probably has:
A) double depression. B) persistent depressive disorder. C) bipolar disorder. D) unipolar depression.
A key problem with Terman's original formula for computing IQs is that it
a. caused people to believe that IQ is unchangeable. b. made it seem as if people grow less intelligent with age. c. was never standardized and difficult to compute. d. caused mathematical difficulties for people far below the average. e. did not correlate with actual intelligence at any point in a person's life.
The ________ refers to a collection of neurons in the forebrain that are involved in pleasure.
A. amygdala B. hippocampus C. corpus callosum D. nucleus accumbens