Identify a True Statement About Mirror Neurons

question 13

Multiple Choice

Identify a true statement about mirror neurons.

• A)They fire both when an animal acts and when the animal observes the same action being performed by another animal.
• B)They are only present during the first year of life and are then discarded.
• C)They lack awareness of an intention or a goal.
• D)They make the brains of young children two-and-a-half times more active than the brains of adults.

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Definitions:

Competitive Exclusion

A principle stating that two species competing for the same limiting resources cannot coexist at constant population values.

Character Displacement

The phenomenon where differences among similar species whose distributions overlap geographically are accentuated in regions where the species co-occur, but are minimized or lost where the species' distributions do not overlap.

Primary Succession

An ecological succession that occurs on land that has not previously been inhabited by plants; no soil is present initially. See succession. Compare with secondary succession.

Zooplankton

The nonphotosynthetic organisms present in plankton (e.g., protozoa, tiny crustaceans) and the larval stages of many animals. See plankton. Compare with phytoplankton.