Question 1

Older adults from East Asia showed almost adaptation in the lateral occipital complex.

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A)  no 
B)  hundred percent 
C)  fifty percent 
D)  some

Question 2

Neuroscience approaches can explain how the brain influences performance, and investigating in the maturing brains of and .

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A)  older adults; children 
B)  adolescents; children 
C)  women ; men 
D)  older adult; adolescents

Question 3

is tool used to produce images of the brain.

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Question 4

in older adults persist in the adult brain and can generate new ones throughout the life span.

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A)  Synapses 
B)  Neurons 
C)  Matter 
D)  Memories

Question 5

Evidence suggests that volume shrinkage in the brain is linked to poor performance on certain tasks.

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Question 6

Which part of the brain appears to be relatively spared in the aging adult?

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A)  occipital 
B)  parietal 
C)  amygdalae 
D)  cortex

Question 7

Researchers in neuroscience analyze both structural changes in brain volume and density and changes of brain areas.

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A)  size 
B)  variable 
C)  functional 
D)  coenzymes.

Question 8

Which approach attempts to link measures of cognitive performance to measures of brain structure or functioning?

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A)  Correlational 
B)  Psychological. 
C)  Neuropsychological. 
D)  Neurobiological

Question 9

Recently the availability of Neuroscientific methods stimulated research that allows us to study processes and changes.

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A)  cognitive 
B)  genetic 
C)  behavioral 
D)  social

Question 10

is a multifaceted concept that applies across the life span, and involves the interaction between the brain and the environment and is mostly used to describe the effects of experience on the structure and functions of the neural system.

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A)  Plasticity 
B)  Neural 
C)  Neuroscience 
D)  neurofibrillary

Question 11

Which of the following brain area is associated with automatic social cognition?

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A)  basal ganglia 
B)  frontal lobe 
C)  cortex 
D)  occipital

Question 12

Research has shown that if information has significance, we will more likely remember it than information that is more in nature.

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A)  neutral; emotional 
B)  important ; emotional 
C)  emotional; importance 
D)  emotional ; neutral

Question 13

Core emotional memory network regions are well in emotional memory, as one grows older.

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A)  preserved 
B)  balanced 
C)  deteriorated 
D)  challenged.

Question 14

are strategies which involve using personally relevant cues to help one remember information.

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A)  Neuropsychology 
B)  Rehearsal. 
C)  Repetition 
D)  Mnemonics

Question 15

Which approach attempts to directly link functional brain activity with cognitive behavioral data?

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A)  Neurobiological. 
B)  Correlational 
C)  Activation imaging 
D)  Psychological.

Question 16

Bilateral activation in older adults may serve a functional and supportive role in their functioning.

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A)  conscious 
B)  unconscious 
C)  cognitive 
D)  cultural

Question 17

Neuroscience research demonstrates that areas of the brain related to visual processing with age.

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A)  increase 
B)  stay the same 
C)  fluctuate 
D)  decline

Question 18

Reduced brain activation or of the prefrontal cortex occurs during intentional cognitive processing.

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A)  over-recruitment 
B)  decline-recruitment 
C)  low-recruitment 
D)  under-recruitment

Question 19

The approach compares brain functioning of healthy older adults with adults displaying various pathological disorders in the brain.

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Question 20

Evidence that older adults undergo that allow them to adapt to the inevitable decline of specific areas of the brain.

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Exam 2: Neuroscience As a Basis for Adult Development and Aging