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Exam 1 Brain Story MODs Questions with
Correct Answers for Specific Exam Mail
The brain begins as an embryonic structure called the:
a. brain stem
b. neocortex
c. neural tube
d. spinal cord
Ans: 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
Ans: 25
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
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Ans: 1. sensory abilities
2. motor skills
3. emotional skills
4. executive function skills
Order the stages of development from greatest plasticity to least plasticity
Ans: 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
Ans: 3
How do experiences shape the developing brain?
Ans: 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?
Ans: At any stage of development
One outcome of addiction in familes is:
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Ans: 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?
Ans: 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
Ans: False
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
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
Which quality does food have to have in order for it to potentially addictive?
a. it needs to taste good
b. it needs to contain high-fructose corn syrup
c. it needs to contain fat
d. all of the above
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Exam 1 Brain Story MODs Questions with
Correct Answers for Specific Exam Mail
The brain begins as an embryonic structure called the:
a. brain stem
b. neocortex
c. neural tube
d. spinal cord
Ans: 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
Ans: 25
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
Pretest - Stuvia US
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Ans: 1. sensory abilities
2. motor skills
3. emotional skills
4. executive function skills
Order the stages of development from greatest plasticity to least plasticity
Ans: 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
Ans: 3
How do experiences shape the developing brain?
Ans: 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?
Ans: At any stage of development
One outcome of addiction in familes is:
Pretest - Stuvia US
, 3
Ans: 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?
Ans: 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
Ans: False
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
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
Which quality does food have to have in order for it to potentially addictive?
a. it needs to taste good
b. it needs to contain high-fructose corn syrup
c. it needs to contain fat
d. all of the above
Pretest - Stuvia US
