Blane deals with people who have suffered some sort of brain damage, helping them try to use different areas of the brain that perform functions that were previously performed by the areas that are now damaged. Blane's specialty would be best described as
a. brain plasticity.
b. synaptic pruning.
c. neural plate studies.
d. motor skills.
Question 2Adolescent egocentrism is characterized by excessive
a. convergence.
b. achievement.
c. self-absorption.
d. depression.
Question 3It is ____ for an adult child caregiver to feel resentful and angry at times about caring for an aging parent.
a. very common
b. somewhat common
c. somewhat unusual
d. very unusual
Question 4During an experiment, you record the brain activity of a child using an EEG. As a result of reading your text, you would predict that the left hemisphere would exhibit the most electrical activity when the child is
a. looking at different faces.
b. listening to someone talk.
c. recognizing that her mother is angry.
d. pushing a toy over her bed.
Question 5The existence of ____ provides evidence that attaining achievement status is not necessarily permanent.
a. the personal fable
b. adolescent egocentrism
c. the foreclosure stage
d. the moratorium stage
Question 6The two key sources of stress for adults caring for their parents include whether the child is coping with a parent's functional decline and if the care
a. is temporary.
b. is perceived as infringing on the caregiver's other responsibilities.
c. takes place in the parent's home.
d. takes place in a private facility.
Question 7Your psychology professor asks you to assist her in her experiment. She is studying brain activity by monitoring blood flow to different areas of the brain. This indicates that your professor is most likely using ____ in her study.
a. an electroencephalogram
b. functional magnetic resonance imaging
c. a visual cliff
d. a neural plate
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