In Studying the Brains of Violent Repeat Offenders,researchers Found That

question 23

Multiple Choice

In studying the brains of violent repeat offenders,researchers found that their brains had ________ frontal lobe tissue than a normal brain.

• A) 11 percent less
• B) 11 percent more
• C) 25 percent less
• D) 25 percent more

Understand the effects of media and information availability on personal fears and biases.

Identify biases within social identity constructs, such as nationalism and political affiliation.

Recognize the influence of distinctive features and categorization in racial perception.

Understand the relationship between aggression, genetics, and physiological factors.

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Definitions:

Sensory Register

The part of the information-processing system that stores input from the sensory organs for a fraction of a second, during which time it is either attended to and moved into working memory or lost from the system.

Short-Term Memory

The part of the memory system that is responsible for temporarily holding small amounts of information in mind for a brief period.

Transductively

Transductively refers to the cognitive process in children where reasoning is made from one specific instance to another, often without logical basis in the adult sense.

Precausal

Thinking or reasoning that precedes an understanding of causality, often observed in young children who make logical connections between events that are not causally related.