Professor Smith conceptualizes personality as a limited number of traits that everyone has to some degree. People can be compared on these traits—that is, some people may be high on one trait, some average, some low. As described in lecture, Professor Smith is using a ____________ approach to personality

Walter Cannon and other critics of the James-Lange theory of emotion based their attacks on all of the following EXCEPT that

a. autonomic nervous system responses happen too slowly to be involved in emotional responses. b. animals continue to respond emotionally after their viscera are separated from the central nervous system. c. visceral activity is irrelevant for emotional experience. d. there is independence of bodily and psychological responses when an emotion is experienced.

By what age does the complete myelination of the reticular formation usually occur?

a) the mid 20s b) the mid 30s c) the mid 40s d) The reticular formation contains only demyelinated neurons, so there is no complete myelination of this brain area.