Growth in the ____________________________ of the brain is one of the reasons that fine motor
skills show great improvement in middle childhood.
a. spatial areas
b. visual cortex
c. sensory and motor areas
d. neurotransmitters
c. sensory and motor areas
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In the brain, the ____________________ system is made up of several interrelated structures, including the amygdala and the hippocampus
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Dana has schizophrenia, which was diagnosed when she was a teenager; she has now been on a standard dose of antipsychotic medication for more than 20 years. She has developed peculiar mannerisms such as thrusting her tongue forward and rubbing the thumb and middle finger of her right hand together. Side effects like these are called:
A) iatrogenic illness. B) tardive dyskinesia. C) reflex synesthesia. D) spasmodic tics.
Your neighbor, a social worker, asks you if you would volunteer to counsel delinquent youths at a detention center for a year. When you refuse, she asks you if you could supervise the youths during a trip to the zoo. Your neighbor is using the __________ technique.
A. lowball B. door-in-the-face C. foot-in-the-door D. bait-and-switch
Greenfield and colleague’s (1968) study of Wolof children and adults showed that performance on a categorization task in which participants had to explain why two out of three objects were alike was ______.
a. impossible for the Wolof to complete b. always matched by basic properties such as color c. affected by schooling d. unable to determine any differences in categorization