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Dalilah is at her wit’s end. Her 18-month-old son has become a terror. Tuesday, he climbed up on the kitchen counter, opened the canister of sugar, and helped himself to a fistful. Thursday, he put his neighbor’s Barbie doll in the fish tank for a swim. Piaget would say:

A feature of which disorder can be considered to be serious theory-of-mind impairments?

Which of the following BEST describes Alzheimer’s disease?

Match the gland to the correct information. 

A psychologist became very interested in a client that could only say the word “TAN”. The client could clearly understand what the psychologist was saying to him but his responses were always produced in the framework of the word “TAN”. When the client died, an autopsy revealed that the client had physical damage to a particular area in his left hemisphere. The psychologist continued his research with clients who had similar issues and discovered all of these clients had physical issues in the same area. This part of the brain was named for the psychologist and is now known as:

Generalizing from the text and classroom discussions about social trends in American culture, if a 79-year-old candidate decides to run for governor of your state, you might expect to hear:

While difficult at all ages, which memory task is virtually impossible for older people?

Which intellectual ability DECLINES dramatically with age?

Orlan is decisive, analytical, and articulate; however, he has noticed that these qualities have been gradually declining.  He has also noticed that these declines have coincided with the gradual appearance of physical issues such as weight gain, high blood pressure, and other stress-related issues.  According to the human growth and development, these changes could be related to Orlan’s:

Maddy, age 45, felt bored in a career, and realized that working with people experiencing homelessness might be more meaningful and fulfilling. According to Erik Erikson, Maddy was searching for a sense of _____ at work.