An individual who usually says "It's all my fault" when anything goes wrong is reflecting the ________ characteristic of the depressive attributional style

In a highly plastic cerebral cortex,

A) the areas of the brain are strongly committed to specific functions, and there is a high capacity for learning. B) if a part of the cortex is damaged, other parts can take over the tasks it would have handled. C) spatial skills develop more rapidly than language skills and are easier to recover after injury. D) the right and left hemispheres of the brain have become strongly lateralized.

In many health psychology studies, ethnicity is treated as a(n) _____ variable, thereby downplaying its importance

a. moderator c. independent b. mediator d. control