Gray matter in the brain ________.
A. replaces white matter during middle childhood
B. consists largely of myelinated nerve fibers
C. increases steadily throughout childhood and adolescence
D. declines as synaptic pruning and death of surrounding neurons proceed
Answer: D
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this concern? a. When it is time for him to go to school, consider schools where there is more diversity among the children. Exposure to others who are different tends to reduce prejudice. b. Children do best when they are surrounded by people who are "like them," so that in the future they can better distinguish themselves from others and find their sense of belonging in their world. c. Prejudice in children is a rarely-seen event, unless it is directly instructed by the parents. As long as you are not showing him prejudice, he won't learn it. d. All children naturally develop prejudice, and they all naturally grow out of it. It doesn't have any negative outcomes, so relax.
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What will be an ideal response?
The pursuit of knowledge through the observation of nature and the attribution of all knowledge to experience is ____.?
a. ?mentalism b. ?empiricism c. ?positivism d. ?materialism e. ?None of the choices are correct.
Which of the following accurately describes a theoretical probability distribution?
a. A theoretical model based on how we assume nature distributes events in the population b. A theoretical model based on the events in a sample c. The computed relative frequency of events in a set of samples that were actually drawn d. The relative frequencies of some of the events in a sampling distribution