Using Smartphones,one Can Watch the News,shoot Videos,browse the Internet,take Pictures,and

question 97

Multiple Choice

Using smartphones,one can watch the news,shoot videos,browse the Internet,take pictures,and listen to music.Improved features are added with each smartphone introduced by Apple,Samsung,LG,and others.As a result,customers often want to replace their existing smartphones with new models or brands every two years when their contracts expire.This increase in demand is due mostly to changes in ________,an environmental force.

• A)competition
• B)social culture
• C)technology
• D)regulations
• E)the economy

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Definitions:

Hippocampus

A major component of the brains of humans and other vertebrates, playing critical roles in the consolidation of information from short-term memory to long-term memory and in spatial memory navigation.

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.