To assess your personality, a person who practices palmistry would want to
a. study your handwriting.
b. examine the bumps on your head.
c. study the lines and creases on your palm.
d. place you into a trance-like state.
c
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If your goal was to get the best image of a brain structure, you should use a a. single-photon emission computerized tomography (SPECT)
b. computerized tomography (CT scan). c. positron emission tomography (PET). d. functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).
Which of the following appears to be based on the ability of brain structures to choose and divert incoming sensory messages?
a. sensory deceleration b. sensory adaptation c. selective attention d. selective accommodation.
Culturally disapproved behaviors in the past were often given psychological labels. The so-called "mental disorder" that caused slaves to run away was known as
a. anarchia. b. nymphomania. c. self-defeating personality. d. drapetomania.
Which of the following best describes the results of the Autism Genome Project?
a. The majority of children with ASD have deletions or duplications of genetic material on specific chromosomes. b. The majority of children with ASD have a genetic abnormality or mutation on a single portion of one gene. c. The majority of children with ASD show the absence of neurexin 1, which produces proteins important to early brain development. d. The majority of children with ASD have causes that have not yet been explained.