Profiling Students Is Problematic Because It Tends to Under Predict

question 57

True/False

Profiling students is problematic because it tends to under predict who might commit a shooting.

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Definitions:

London Taxi Drivers

refers to a study population often cited in psychological and neuroscientific research that has revealed notable increases in the size of the hippocampus associated with the complex navigational skills required by their profession.

Sensory Receptors

Sensory organs that detect physical stimulation from the external world and change that stimulation into information that can be processed by the brain.

Thalamus

A subcortical forebrain structure; the gateway to the brain for almost all incoming sensory information before that information reaches the cortex.

Cortex

The outermost layer of the brain, responsible for higher brain functions such as thought, reasoning, memory, and voluntary movement.