Which are used by researchers to dispute Piaget's claims that infants are not capable of mental representations until late in the sensorimotor period? violation-of-expectation tasks tertiary circular reactions tertiary circular reactions assimilation tasks

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A: The amygdala is basically a collection or group of cells located close to the base of the brain.…

Q: ow can one experimentally differentiate the function of different frontal areas (M1, FEFs, premotor,…

A: The brain is divided into different areas that perform different functions and control different…

Q: Define neural pruning and explain why it happens in the adolescence brain.

A: The brain is referred to as the processing unit of the central nervous system (CNS) and is situated…

Q: The hypothalamus is responsible for all of the following Except? Group of answer choices…

A: The hypothalamus is a small region of the brain located at the base of the brain, near the pituitary…

Q: One finding that has emerged pertains to gender differences in expression of emotions. Although both…

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Q: What process distinguishes a shortterm memory from a long-term one?

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Q: Describe Hormones affect on attention?

A: Hormones are produced from the endocrine glands. Hormones are proteins and are responsible for…

Q: What is Tactile Communication ? When does it occur ?

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Q: A guardian is playing with an infant using a colorful ball. At three months of age, the guardian hid…

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Q: LTP in the hippocampus

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Q: Compare and contrast the features of working, shortterm, and both types of long-term memory

A: Memory is part of the cognitive function of the brain. It is of three types, long-term, short-term,…

Q: esearch and investigate in a scientific fashion what screen time can do to the brain. Identify…

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Q: Compare and contrast the events and importance of slow-wave and REM sleep.

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Q: . Analyze the three steps in neural communication

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Q: Describe the Interpretation for Sleep Deprivation Experiment.

A: Sleep plays a vital role in maintaining mental and physical health. During sleep, our body is…

Q: What is true of prenatal effects on brain plasticity?     Parents' experiences before conception…

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A: With ageing certain changes occur within memory of individuals

Q: Which one is not the best way to describe necessary "threshold" as "sensitivity" declines with age?…

A: The relationship between sensitivity and threshold is pivotal, especially as individuals age.…

Q: List possible hypotheses for the function of periodic arousal,and design experiments to test your…

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Q: What could be the implications of the existence of mirror neurons on learning in children and old…

A: Brain is the central unit of the life. The brain trains itself from the beginning(birth ) till the…

Q: Provide three pieces of evidence that suggest language development is innate

A: Despite the complexity of language, children are able to accurately acquire a language within a…

Q: Limbic System, Emotion, Reward, and Addiction Describe how stimuli gain emotional significance…

A: Fear conditioning is a form of learning where an association is made between a neutral stimulus and…

Q: How is unconscious connected to behavior?

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Q: How might the limbic system influence behavior?

A: The limbic system or paleomammalian cortex majorly consists of four major parts of the…

Q: Limbic System, Emotion, Reward, and Addiction Describe the role of the amygdala in emotion at the…

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Q: The mesolimbic dopamine pathway is most closely associated with a. shifting between states of…

A: The mesolimbic and mesocortical pathways are the two of the brain's main dopaminergic pathways, have…

Q: What does relational listening means

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Q: According to study of Simon Levay how does the brains of homosexual people and heterosexual people…

A: In the summer of 1991, a neurobiologist at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, Simon Levay…

Q: Describe Dr. LeDoux's direct ("fast and dirty") ascending emotional pathways   Emotional…

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Q: What does the Auditory-verbal approach emphasize?

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Q: What is adaptation? Give an example. Describe tonic andphasic receptors.

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Q: What disorder is thought to be related to physiological *under*arousal?

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Q: This dataset comes from research conducted by Dr. Lincoln Craton, who has been investigating…

A: Cognition refers to mental processes and activities that are related to acquiring, processing, and…

Q: A study testing sensory deprivation took place at McGill University in the 1950’s. What is sensory…

A: The brain seems to be in command of the majority of bodily functions and actions. The cerebrum,…

Q: Apply the subtypes of memory and brain regions involved in each to rodent experiments in learning…

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Q: When a person is cognitively aroused, neurons are desynchronized in their firing as they carry out…

A: Neuronal synchronization is defined as correlated appearance in time of two or more events…

Q: According to Hilde Bruch, what was the cause of ego-deficiencies in child ?

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Learning and memory

Learning is defined as a relatively permanent and irreversible adaptive change in behavior. It always results from experience. The ability of an organism to store and recall the effects, sensations, and knowledge gained through learning and experience is called memory.