Which of the following best explains why most of us cannot describe or recall events that happened to us as infants?
Emotions are closely tied to memory, and the emotional centers of the infant
brain have not yet developed.
Language is an important tool in memory formation, and infants have not yet
developed language skills.
Infants are not motivated to form long-term memories as long as their needs
are being met.
The memory areas of the cortex are not yet present in infants.
Language is an important tool in memory formation, and infants have not yet
developed language skills.
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A) illness anxiety disorder B) dissociative identity disorder C) posttraumatic stress disorder D) obsessive-compulsive disorder
When older toddlers interact with toys, they usually
a. share toys. c. have interest in only their own toys. b. have possessive conflicts over toys. d. give their toys to other toddlers.
According to the article Pants On Fireabout the detection of high stake lies, Ekman found a correlation
between ability to detect high stakes lies and ability to detect microexpressions. Does this mean that being good at detecting microexpressions causes someone to be good at detecting lies? (a) yes, because the two are so strongly related (b) yes, for some people (c) no, because the data were only correlational (d) no, because the correlations were not statistically significant