What Is Brain Plasticity

question 17

Multiple Choice

What is brain plasticity?

• A)The brain development problems that occur due to exposure to environmental toxins.
• B)The brain's ability to hold on to past information.
• C)The decrease in the complexity of the brain cell network of connections.
• D)The brain's ability to be flexible and change when new information expands or replaces previous knowledge.

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Definitions:

Learned Ways

The behaviors, skills, or norms that are acquired through observation, instruction, and experience within a society or group.

Psychology

The scientific study of the mind and behavior, exploring various aspects of conscious and unconscious experience as well as thought and emotion.

Culture

The shared values, beliefs, behaviors, and artifacts that the members of a society use to cope with their world and with one another, and that are transmitted from generation to generation through learning.

Aversive Racists

Individuals who profess egalitarian values yet possess negative feelings and beliefs towards a racial group subconsciously.