Briefly explain cephalocaudal development in neonates.
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary. Neonates can move their heads slightly to the side. They can thus avoid suffocation if they are lying face down and their noses or mouths are obstructed by bedding. At about one month, infants can raise their heads. By about two months, they can also lift their chests while lying on their stomachs.
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Two different clinicians diagnosed the same client with two different personality disorders. How does Reed (2010) explain this?
a. The clinicians have different training. b. The symptoms probably overlap in both disorders. c. The client behaved differently with each clinician. d. The clinicians have different levels of experience.
By sheer mass alone, which species has the largest brain?
a. chimpanzee c. elephant b. dog d. human
Francis Cecil Sumner is best known
a. as a comparative psychologist, who wrote an influential book on animal behavior, titled The Animal Mind. b. for writing the first American psychology textbook and teaching the first psychology course. c. as the first President of the American Psychological Association. d. as the first African-American man to earn a doctoral degree in psychology in 1920 and chair of the Psychology Department at Howard University.
Adjacent parts of the body are represented in adjacent parts of the somatosensory cortex. We call this a ___ map
a. Temporal b. Somatotopic c. Retinotopic d. Parallax