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EXAM 1 BRAIN STORY MODS EXAM
2024-2025 ACTUAL EXAM 55
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
|ALREADY GRADED A PASS
The brain begins as an embryonic structure called the:
a. brain stem
b. neocortex
c. neural tube
d. spinal cord
✓ Neural tube
Bain developmental starts shortly after conception. The brain is considered mature
around the age of:
a. 6
b. 18
c. 25
d. 60
✓ 25
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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
✓ 1. sensory abilities
✓ 2. motor skills
✓ 3. emotional skills
✓ 4. executive function skills
Order the stages of development from greatest plasticity to least plasticity
✓ Early childhood, late childhood, adolesence, adulthood
The age at which brain has the most connections between its neurons is:
a. 3
b. 6
c. 25
d. 50
✓ 3
How do experiences shape the developing brain?
✓ They influence which neural connections are strengthened and which are pruned
away
At what stage of development do negative experiences influence the architecture of
the developing brain?
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✓ At any stage of development
One outcome of addiction in familes is:
✓ Parents without the capacity to parent in healthy ways leads to the
intergenerational transmission of toxic stress
What is the defining feature of an addicted family?
✓ A system that is structed to protect teh acciction in the family because doing
anything else becomes too threatening
T or F:
Parents of an addicted adolescent will develop their own addiction to protect their
childs addiction
✓ False
Dr. Goodwine Fisher states that the recovery process creates a constant tension within
families. What does she say this is largely due to?
✓ The need to break apart the current family structure so that each member can
focus on their individual recovery
Why did mainstream psychiatry continue to reject, for many years, the notion that
gambling and overeating could be addictive?
✓ bc they do not have a prominent physical withdrawal syndrome
Which quality does food have to have in order for it to potentially addictive?
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EXAM 1 BRAIN STORY MODS EXAM
2024-2025 ACTUAL EXAM 55
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
|ALREADY GRADED A PASS
The brain begins as an embryonic structure called the:
a. brain stem
b. neocortex
c. neural tube
d. spinal cord
✓ Neural tube
Bain developmental starts shortly after conception. The brain is considered mature
around the age of:
a. 6
b. 18
c. 25
d. 60
✓ 25
Top Mark !!!
, Top Mark Questions and Correct Verified Answers
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
✓ 1. sensory abilities
✓ 2. motor skills
✓ 3. emotional skills
✓ 4. executive function skills
Order the stages of development from greatest plasticity to least plasticity
✓ Early childhood, late childhood, adolesence, adulthood
The age at which brain has the most connections between its neurons is:
a. 3
b. 6
c. 25
d. 50
✓ 3
How do experiences shape the developing brain?
✓ They influence which neural connections are strengthened and which are pruned
away
At what stage of development do negative experiences influence the architecture of
the developing brain?
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✓ At any stage of development
One outcome of addiction in familes is:
✓ Parents without the capacity to parent in healthy ways leads to the
intergenerational transmission of toxic stress
What is the defining feature of an addicted family?
✓ A system that is structed to protect teh acciction in the family because doing
anything else becomes too threatening
T or F:
Parents of an addicted adolescent will develop their own addiction to protect their
childs addiction
✓ False
Dr. Goodwine Fisher states that the recovery process creates a constant tension within
families. What does she say this is largely due to?
✓ The need to break apart the current family structure so that each member can
focus on their individual recovery
Why did mainstream psychiatry continue to reject, for many years, the notion that
gambling and overeating could be addictive?
✓ bc they do not have a prominent physical withdrawal syndrome
Which quality does food have to have in order for it to potentially addictive?
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