The most important situational variable in altruism is the ______

Gertrude, a mentally sharp but physically impaired resident at a local assisted-living facility, complains that the staff talks to her as if she were a baby. The staff is using:

A) elderspeak. B) lazy communication style. C) oldster speak. D) ageist language.

Before the hemispheres of the cerebral cortex lateralize,

A) damage to a particular region means that the abilities it normally controls are lost forever. B) other parts can take over the tasks that would have been handled by a damaged region. C) each hemisphere controls only one side of the body. D) each hemisphere receives sensory information from only one side of the body.