Jadzia is a young child with Williams syndrome. Recent evidence indicates that Jadzia will
A) have less complex sentence production than a child with Down syndrome.
B) depend on rule learning to acquire language skills.
C) probably learn language by capitalizing on her social strengths.
D) have a limited vocabulary and rarely speak in full sentences.
C
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In a research study on cognitive dissonance (van Veen, Krug, Schooler & Carter, 2009), one group of participants undergoing functional MRI was asked to describe the somewhat unpleasant scanner experience as pleasant. The other group was asked to describe it as neutral. Which part(s) of the brain showed higher levels of activity in the participants who made dissonant statements, as compared to
those who made neutral statements? a. ?amygdala b. ?prefrontal cortex c. ?anterior cingulate cortex and insula d. ?cerebellum and pons
Many psychological studies lack ethnic diversity. This decreases what?
A. internal validity B. design effects C. reliability D. generalizability
Current estimates suggest we have around ____ neurons in our brain
a. ?800 million b. ?6 billion c. ?46 billion d. ?86 billion
Within their first year of life, babies have problems walking and performing other physical acts because the __________ of many neurons are not fully developed
a. myelin sheaths c. dendrites b. axons d. somas