Post Test 7

Question 1

Several areas of the prefrontal cortex play a role in
executive functions, planning, following social
rules, and ____.

Answer 1

inhibition

Question 2

Piaget found that 7-month-old infants reached for
the same location to find a hidden object even
after the object had been moved to a new location
in front of them. This was termed as ____ ____

Answer 2

perseverative error

Question 3

If it is absolutely essential for an experience to
occur within a particular interval to influence
development, the interval is called a ____ ____.

Answer 3

critical period

Question 4

Most experiential effects occur during the ____
period.

Answer 4

sensitive period

Question 5

The effects of early stimulus deprivation, such as
depriving visual input, can reduce the number of
____ projecting to the visual cortex from the lateral
geniculate nucleus.

Answer 5

axons

Question 6

New olfactory bulb and striatal neurons are
created from adult neural ____ cells at certain sites in the subventricular zone of the lateral
ventricles.

Answer 6

stem

Question 7

Animal studies have shown that adult rats living in
enriched environments produced 60 percent more
neurons in the

Answer 7

hippocampus

Question 8

Adult-generated hippocampal neurons become
____ cells in the dentate gyrus.

Answer 8

granule

Question 9

_____ , otherwise referred to as ringing of the ears,
produces a major reorganization of the primary
auditory cortex.

Answer 9

Tinnitus