When Mark started running for the first time, he could barely run two miles a day. After practicing rigorously for a month, he was able to run five miles a day. In this scenario, Mark's leg muscles adjusting to his running schedule best illustrates:
A. parallel processing.
B. sensory adaptation.
C. selective attention.
D. perceptual constancy.
B. sensory adaptation.
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a. rats eating only a single unfamiliar food at one time b. male wild turkeys growing larger beak ornaments c. male moths gathering sodium to transfer to prospective mates d. grasshoppers digging a trench in which to hide
What is one significant reason for the advances in fine motor skills shown by children 6 to 8 years old?
A. Children have lived long enough to acquire practice with fine motor skills. B. Children's cognitive development is increasing. C. Children have greater opportunities to model fine motor skill behaviors from others. D. The amount of myelin in the brain increases to protect, insulate, and surround neurons.
Which of the following is a way to distinguish between someone with conversion disorder and someone who is malingering?
A. People with conversion disorder are very willing to talk about their symptoms; malingerers will be more cautious. B. People with conversion disorder will be very cautious in talking about their symptoms; malingerers are very willing to talk about them. C. People with conversion disorder are usually very defensive; malingerers will try to seem very open and trusting. D. If their symptoms are shown to be inconsistent, people with conversion disorder become very defensive, while malingerers do not.
Ischemia is to ____ as hemorrhage is to ____
a. older individuals; younger individuals b. proximal; distal c. obstruction; rupture d. barely noticeable; lethal