Which of These Is the BEST Example of Plasticity

question 113

Multiple Choice

Which of these is the BEST example of plasticity?

• A) a child who experiences a traumatic brain injury and relearns how to walk and talk
• B) a teenager who spends a summer in Chile as part of his church youth group
• C) a woman who leaves her job to stay home with her newborn
• D) a man who is in a serious car wreck and remains in a coma five years later

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Definitions:

Place Learning

The cognitive process that allows an organism to remember the location of objects, routes, or specific places.

Escape Platform

A tool used in behavioral neuroscience research, typically in water maze tests, where an animal must find a submerged platform to escape from the water.

Event-Related Potentials

Brain responses that are the direct result of a specific sensory, cognitive, or motor event, measurable via electroencephalography.

Graded Potentials

Changes in membrane potential that vary in size and are not part of the all-or-nothing response of action potentials.