Deterioration of the health of the heart and blood vessels poses an increased risk to the brain of damage from _____

a) death.
b) synaptogenesis.
c) too much pruning.
d) stroke.

Answer: d

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a. psychology was viewed as being a less attractive career for women when the masculine generic was used. b. men judged psychology as being less attractive for themselves when the gender neutral version was used. c. few people were influenced by the nature of the description. d. most women remarked that they were offended by the use of the masculine generic.

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a. Suicidal behavior disorder in DSM-5 as a "condition for further study," not as a distinct diagnostic category at this time. b. Most suicidal persons do not exhibit psychiatric symptoms. c. Suicide does not deserve to be studied separate and apart from depression because it is not a major cause of death in the United States. d. We are at a point in time when there is decreased openness to talking about issues of death and dying, the meaning of suicide, and the right to take one's own life.

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