The Brain Changes That Those with Alzheimer's Disease Experience Are

question 82

Multiple Choice

The brain changes that those with Alzheimer's disease experience are:

• A) similar to those of most elderly people, but they happen to an excessive degree.
• B) different from those of most elderly people, especially in the cerebellum.
• C) different from those of most elderly people, especially in the corpus callosum.
• D) different from those of most elderly people in all parts of the brain.

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Definitions:

Law Of Effect

A principle stating that responses followed by satisfactory outcomes become more likely to occur, and those followed by unsatisfactory outcomes become less likely.

Successive Approximations

Successive approximations are a method used in behavior therapy where closer and closer steps to a desired behavior are rewarded until the target behavior is achieved.

Skinner Box

A soundproof chamber with a device for delivering food to an animal subject; used in operant conditioning experiments.

Generalization

The process of applying the conclusions drawn from specific instances to broader contexts or situations.