Describe two features that function to protect the brain from external injury

What will be an ideal response?


Answer: The brain is encased in a layer of bone (the skull). Several layers of meninges form a solid sheath around the brain. The brain floats within a pool of CSF, which cushions the brain against rapid acceleration/deceleration.

Psychology

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Which of the following individuals is going through a depersonalization experience?

a. Peter, who believes the world is out to get him b. Abigail, who has amnesia for her name and identity c. Ronald, who believes he has more than one personality d. Terry, who has the sensation of floating above her body

Psychology

Which symptom would be characteristic of the anxious/depressed dimension of child psychopathology?

a. feels worthless b. refuses to talk c. gets teased d. strange ideas

Psychology

When Carolyn Rovee-Collier and other researchers use the conjugate reinforcement technique, a baby demonstrates memory by

a. showing dishabituation to a familiar stimulus, measured in terms of sucking responses. b. staring longer at a mobile that has never been seen before. c. smiling more at a familiar stimulus than at an unfamiliar stimulus. d. kicking his or her leg when the mobile is presented.

Psychology

You work with a loud and obnoxious person and try to end your conversation with him as soon as possible, which illustrates __________learning

a. respondent b. place c. escape d. latent

Psychology