WorksheetsNDD event 24 nov
Total questions: 31
Worksheet time: 14mins
When is brain developing most rapidly?
old age
early childhood
middle adulthood
adolescence
Who is considered the "Father of Genetics"
Mark Summers
Rhet Stewart
Gregor Mendel
Albert Einstein
Is the statement "Cognitive development has to do with thinking and processing information" true or false?
True
False
Which of the following traits is usually associated with creativity?
convergent thinking
divergent thinking
intelligence
modelling
What is considered the "Study of Heredity"
Biology
Geology
Genetics
Cellology
Memory in which behavior is affected by prior experience without a recollection of that experience is known as
Short-term memory
Explicit memory
Sensory memory
Implicit memory
"Pattern of sleeping in a 24-hour period" is the definition of which term?
Sleep-Wake Cycle
Blue Light
Sleep Deficit
Sleep Deprived
What is the term used to refer to sleep disorders that occur when people are partially, but not completely, awoken from sleep?
Insomnia
Parasomnia
Narcolepsy
Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome (DSPS)
Which disorder that affects the brain’s ability to control the sleep-wake cycle?
Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome (DSPS)
Parasomnia
Insomnia
Narcolepsy
Which disorder is associated with trouble falling or staying asleep?
Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome (DSPS)
Sleep Apnea
Parasomnia
Insomnia
Which of the following statements is true referring to REM sleep?
virtually no electrical activity in skeletal muscles can be detected.
large amounts of electrical activity in skeletal muscles can be detected.
virtually no electrical activity in the eye muscles can be detected.
large amounts of movement are caused when dreaming, including sleep walking.
Sleep deprivation studies show that changes to an individual’s ability to function in normal waking consciousness start to become noticeable after about __________ days without sleep, and usually involve performance deficits on ________ tasks.
three; challenging
seven; routine
seven; challenging
three; routine
Newborn babies’ sleep patterns differ from those of the elderly.
Which of the following statements about their different sleep patterns is most likely to be correct?
Which of the following is true of REM sleep:
What does ADHD stand for?
Attention Disorder/Hyperactivity Disorder
Attention Deficit Disorder
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Amazing, Delightful, Happy, Dreamer
What are the components of ADHD?
Attention and Hyperactivity
Inattention, Impulsivity and Hyperactivity
Concentration, Memory and Academic Performance
Memory and Concentration
What is the microbiome?
All of the microorganisms that live in a particular environment
to small to be seen
a nanometer
the width of a DNA strand
Approximately how many microorganisms are on us or in us?
more than 250 trillion
Nobody knows for sure
Who produces 90% of the serotonin in our body?
Gut bacteria
Viruses
Neurons in our CNS
Glia cells
Which of the following traits is the most heritable, as estimated from genome-wide association studies (GWAS)?
Autism spectrum disorder
Morning plasma cortisol concentration
Drinking full fat milk
Sleepiness
One of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders is intellectual disability. How frequent is the clinician able to make a clinical diagnosis in a child with intellectual disability using the current available diagnostic tools?
Less than 25%
25 to 50%
50 to 75%
More than 75%
Which of the following traits is the least heritable, as estimated from genome-wide association studies (GWAS)?
Autism spectrum disorder
Morning plasma cortisol concentration
Drinking full fat milk
In scotland, all 11 year old children did a cognitive test battery at age 10. 79 years later, at age 90, a large group of them did the same exact cognitive test. How strongly was their performance correlated across this interval?
r=0
r=0.2
r=0.4
r=0.6
Your brain volume is largest at age:
6-7 years
16-18 years
25-30 years
If you laid the axons in a cubic mm3 of white matter tissue end to end, it would be approximately:
500 meters
3 kilometers
30 kilometers
The fruit fly's genome encodes how much of human disease-associated genes?
35%
50%
75%
90%
In Kleefstra syndrome, who functions on a higher level?
Girls
Boys
Is this statement true?
"People with ADHD are more likely to be high on divergent thinking than people without ADHD."
Correct
Incorrect
A human being does have ~20.000 genes. An average Christmas tree does have:
Less genes: ~5,000 to 10,000
similar: 17,000 to 22,500
More genes: 35,000 to 40,000
Trees do not have genes
