What is the term for body weight that is more than 20 percent higher than the average weight for a person of a given age and height?
a) Overweight
b) Underweight
c) Malnutrition
d) Obesity
Answer: d
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a. he was probably schizophrenic. b. he was most likely illiterate. c. parietal lobe functioning had deteriorated. d. dopamine production had deteriorated.
Aliens abducted Wally and destroyed his capacity to form any new episodic memories. In other words, they damaged Wally's ____, causing ____ amnesia.?
a. ?hippocampus; anterograde b. ?hippocampus; retrograde c. ?hypothalamus; retrograde d. ?hypothalamus; anterograde
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A) Down B) Prader–Willi C) fetal alcohol D) Turner
The idea that infants and children (as well as monkeys) are prepared by natural selection to attend to and acquire some things more readily than others is called
a. prepared learning. c. instinctive fear. b. evolutionary instincts. d. social learning.