In a large study of children with injuries to the cerebral cortex that occurred before birth or in the first six months of life, researchers found that
A) language functioning was highly lateralized from birth to age 5.
B) compared with spatial skills, language skills were more impaired after early brain injury.
C) undamaged areas—in either the left or the right hemisphere—took over certain language functions.
D) children never fully caught up in vocabulary or grammatical skills.
C
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A) bad luck, thereby misapplying the representativeness heuristic. B) the invalidity of the test, thereby protecting his self-esteem. C) unclear instructions, thereby making the fundamental attribution error. D) his own ability, thereby demonstrating the actor-observer bias.
Stimulation that is painful to the body is as example of a(n) ____________ stimulus
a. neutral b. conditioned c. unconditioned d. environmental