Tony has been in a nursing home for one year. He has become apathetic, indifferent, and does not care about himself. What term describes Tony?
a) learned helplessness
b) self-pity
c) institutionalism
d) neurodementia
c
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b. involves aversive consequences. c. ends up increasing the incidence of an unwanted behavior. d. requires an age-peer model.
You are baffled about how to untangle the influence of heredity and environment on intelligence. According to your text, you should ____.?
a. ?do a longitudinal study where you give people IQ tests every two years from infancy to early adulthood b. ?calculate the IQ of parents and their offspring, which would show the influence of the environment c. ?measure and compare the IQs of identical twins, of fraternal twins, and of siblings reared either together or separately d. ?map the genes responsible for intelligence
Slow-wave sleep is also known as:
A) REM sleep. B) hypnopompic sleep. C) stages 3 and 4 sleep. D) stage 5 sleep.
Medication treatment for autism has been found to be
A. mildly effective. B. generally ineffective. C. generally effective. D. highly effective initially, though the benefits of medication decrease over time.