The experience of dissociation (feelings of unreality; blunting of emotional experience and physical pain) during or immediately following a life-threatening situation is
a. a sign of psychopathology
b. extremely rare in non-disordered individuals.
c. not well documented.
d. a normal reaction.
d
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__________ is a pattern in which small environmental effects of child behaviors become magnified across time or age, leading to larger environmental effects or larger changes in the child.
A. Executive function B. Cumulative risk C. A developmental cascade D. Child neglect
As you study for a class, you find that the material is very difficult. To encode the material into long-term memory, you should try to ____.
A. increase the storage capacity of long-term memory B. rehearse it many times C. memorize the material D. make associations between the material and what you already know
Franklin is listening to music with the volume fairly low; Cecilia is listening to music with the volume turned to the maximum. Based on what is known about action potentials, you could predict that for these two individuals, the action potentials:
a. will be the same due to the all-or-none principal b. in Cecilia's nervous system will travel more quickly because the incoming signal is more intense c. in Franklin's nervous system will be weaker because the incoming signal is less intense d. in Franklin's nervous system will travel a shorter distance because the incoming signal is less intense
The drop in school grades and difficulties in psychological adjustment that occur when students make the transition from elementary to middle school can result from a mismatch between the characteristics of early adolescents and the design of middle school schedules and classroom practices, known as a poor ____________________
a. developmental fit b. stage-environment fit c. core curriculum fit d. understanding of adolescent development