Among people with bipolar disorder, social support appears to ______ recovery from mood episodes and ______ the likelihood of future attacks.

Why do young children appear to acquire language more easily than adults?

A) There is a sensitive period during childhood during which children's brains are primed to develop language. B) Adults are more distracted than children, who can devote more cognitive processing to learning a new language. C) Children are exposed to a greater variety of vocabulary words than adults typically are. D) This is a common myth; children do not have an easier time learning language than adults do.

What type of processing takes sensory data into the system through receptors and then sends the data to the brain for analysis of information?

a. top-down processing b. integrative processing c. distinction-extraction processing d. bottom-up processing e. serial combinatorial processing