Exam 1 Brain Story MODs Questions and Answers
The brain begins as an embryonic structure called the:
a. brain stem
b. neocortex
c. neural tube
d. spinal cord
Bain developmental starts shortly after conception. The brain is considered mature around the age of:
a. 6
b. 18
c. 25
d. 60
Diffe...
1). The brain begins as an embryonic structure called the:
a. brain stem
b. neocortex
c. neural tube
d. spinal cord
Ans: Neural tube
2). Bain developmental starts shortly after conception. the brain is considered mature around
the age of:
a. 6
b. 18
c. 25
d. 60
Ans: 25
3). Different abilities, and their underlying neural circuits, develop in a bottom-up sequence
during sensitive periods. put the following abilities in the correct sequence of development:
sensory abilities, motor skills, executive function skills, emotional skills
Ans: 1. sensory abilities
2. motor skills
3. emotional skills
4. executive function skills
4). Order the stages of development from greatest plasticity to least plasticity
Ans: Early childhood, late childhood, adolesence, adulthood
5). The age at which brain has the most connections between its neurons is:
a. 3
b. 6
c. 25
d. 50
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, Ans: 3
6). How do experiences shape the developing brain?
Ans: They influence which neural connections are strengthened and which are pruned
away
7). At what stage of development do negative experiences influence the architecture of the
developing brain?
Ans: At any stage of development
8). One outcome of addiction in familes is:
Ans: Parents without the capacity to parent in healthy ways leads to the
intergenerational transmission of toxic stress
9). What is the defining feature of an addicted family?
Ans: A system that is structed to protect teh acciction in the family because doing
anything else becomes too threatening
10). T or f:
parents of an addicted adolescent will develop their own addiction to protect their childs
addiction
Ans: False
11). Dr. goodwine fisher states that the recovery process creates a constant tension within
families. what does she say this is largely due to?
Ans: The need to break apart the current family structure so that each member can
focus on their individual recovery
12). Why did mainstream psychiatry continue to reject, for many years, the notion that gambling
and overeating could be addictive?
Ans: bc they do not have a prominent physical withdrawal syndrome
13).
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