When researchers scanned the brains of professional musicians, they found that the functional organization of their brains was different from non-musicians.

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When researchers scanned the brains of professional musicians, they…

 

When researchers scanned the brains of professional musicians, they found that the functional organization of their brains was different from non-musicians. This is an example of

 

Question 4 options:

 

experience-dependent processes
the process of the socially just diversification of the genome
experience-independent processes
proximal processes
experience-expectant processes

A picture that conveys the conceptual idea behind regulatory processes (e.g., epigenetic processes) in development is

Question 5 options:

Students sleeping during a lecture
The water that flows in a river is redirected when it hits obstacles (e.g., rocks) on its way or railway tracks and switches
Cars moving straight on a street towards a goal
The cycle of the seasons
A geographic map

 

A number of factors affect epigenetic processes. One of the following is not a factor that can affect epigenetic processes

Question 6 options:

All of these factors can affect epigenetic processes
Nutrition
Being bullied in school
Child abuse
Air quality

 

Evolutionary theory has had a major impact on developmental psychology. One of the following scientists does not fit into this tradition?

Question 7 options:

Skinner
Haeckel
Darwin
Galton
All fit into this tradition

 

Which statement is incorrect?

Question 8 options:

The child affected by PKU is born with a defect in his ability to produce the liver enzymes necessary for the metabolism of phenylalanine.
Eating the right food can minimize the effects of PKU on development
Phenylalanine is contained in the protein fraction of foods in the human diet.
Phenylketonuria (PKU) is an inborn error of neural transmission transmitted genetically.
Undetected, PKU can lead to severe intellectual disabilities

 

A question that is typical for the approach taken in most studies in population genetics is:

Question 9 options:

the contribution of genetics to mental health issues in a specific population
which epigenetic mechanisms are typical for certain populations
the biochemical processes involved in schizophrenia
whether populations differ with regard to the genetic mechanisms involved in intelligence
which genes affect antisocial behavior

 

One of the following statements is in line with the idea of epigenetics

Question 10 options:

The environment has an effect on how the information that is encoded in our genes is read and used.
Epigenetics is the reason why development unfolds in a fixed sequence
Development is mostly an internal process that structures epigenetic processes
The role of the external environment in development is to mediate epigenetic processes
The environment changes the DNA sequence

 

Haeckel’s biogenetic law is in line with the following statement

Question 11 options:

The prenatal development of the brain is almost identical in all organisms
Mammals are very similar in the very early stages of prenatal development
Phylogeny is less relevant in later development
Phylogeny shows that the notion of stages in human individual development is inconsistent
phylogeny recapitulates ontogeny

 

In the podcast “The Brains of Babes Part II”, Dr. Michael Meaney highlights that …

Question 12 options:

what makes humans different is that we have more genes than other species
what makes humans different is that experience-expectant processes can be reversed
that we now understand how ontogeny is related to phylogeny
what makes humans different is that our brains are capable of epigenetic processes
what makes humans different is the incredible capacity to respond at the genetic level to events in our environment