The effects of meditation include all of the following EXCEPT

a. decreased immune system activity.
b. lowered heart rate.
c. increased muscle relaxation.
d. decreased blood pressure.

ANSWER: a

Psychology

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Posner and Rothbart propose that the executive attention network is active when people need to inhibit an automatic response. On this kind of attention task, the portion of the brain that would be most active is

a. the parietal lobe. b. the temporal lobe. c. the occipital lobe. d. the frontal lobe.

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Which of the following is true about the relationship between the brain and intelligence scores?

A) Brain size, but not the degree of convolution, is correlated with intelligence scores. B) The degree of convolution, but not brain size, is correlated with intelligence scores. C) Both the size and degree of convolution of the cortex are correlated with intelligence scores. D) Neither the size, nor the degree of convolution of the cortex, are correlated with intelligence scores.

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