Which statement about neural development is false?
a. Most developing axons reach their destination even before a baby is born
b. Synapses both proliferate and disappear in early childhood.
c. Brain connections are relatively pre-determined and cannot be changed by the environment.
d. Primitive areas of the brain develop first.
c
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Which of the following statements correctly describes the rate of PTSD among combat-exposed military personnel since 2001?
a) PTSD has remained stable since 2001, since there have been no new combat experiences for soldiers since 2001. b) Since PTSD is more fully understood, PTSD has declined in soldiers due to better medications. c) The rate of PTSD has tripled since 2001. d) PTSD has increased in combat-exposed women but not in combat-exposed men since 2001.
The ________ hypothesis is that one result of repeated use of a drug in interaction with environmental factors is changes in the brain neural pathways that may heighten the reward value of the drug
a. tolerance b. biological c. sensitization d. psychoactive
At the rock concert she attended over the weekend, Veronica noticed that when the red and green spotlights overlapped they seemed to change to a yellow spotlight. This can be explained using the principles of:
a. subtractive color mixing b. complementary colors c. additive color mixing d. hypercomplex feature detection
When James felt himself becoming angry during a meeting with his boss, he repeatedly told himself suggestions he had practiced with his therapist, such as "Just roll with the punches" and "I am not going to let him get to me." His use of these thoughts is an example of:
A) stress-inoculation training. B) repressive coping. C) exposure therapy. D) psychoanalytic therapy.