Longitudinal Designs Are Particularly Useful for Examining

question 14

Multiple Choice

Longitudinal designs are particularly useful for examining:

• A) continuity and discontinuity in development.
• B) age differences on a particular variable.
• C) the processes that produce changes.
• D) all of these.

Understand the basic components of Freud's model of the mind.

Identify the genetic causes of specific diseases.

Recognize the applications of various neuroimaging and stimulation techniques in modifying brain behavior and treating neurological disorders.

Describe Freud's contributions to psychotherapy.

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Definitions:

Split-Brain Patient

An individual who has had the corpus callosum, the connective bridge between the two hemispheres of the brain, severed, often used to study the separate functions of the brain hemispheres.

Left Visual Field

The part of the visual field perceived by the right hemisphere of the brain, encompassing the left side of the environment as seen by each eye.

Right Visual Field

The right visual field pertains to the part of the environment perceived by the right half of the retina in each eye, processed primarily by the brain's left hemisphere.

Contralateral Neglect

Ignoring a part of the body or world on the side opposite (contralateral to) that of a brain injury.