Stanny and Johnson's "weapons focus" experiment, investigating memory for crime scenes, found that
a. the presence of a weapon enhances memory for all parts of the event.
b. the presence of a weapon has no effect on memory for the event.
c. the threat of a weapon causes people to focus their attention away from the weapon itself.
d. the presence of a weapon hinders memory for other parts of the event.
d
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a. Alertness decreases steadily throughout the period of wakefulness. b. Alertness decreases for the first day and then remains steady. c. Alertness is better in the morning than it was during the previous night. d. Alertness increases and decreases on an irregular, unpredictable basis.
Rite of passage is a theoretical concept developed by which social scientist?
a. Durkheim b. Van Gennep c. Malinowski d. Radcliffe-Brown
Pavlov was convinced that:
a. the conditioned stimulus acted as a kind of substitute for the unconditioned stimulus b. conditioning involved actively learning one event signaled another c. the cognitive view of conditioning was the correct view d. blocking was proof conditioning could be undone
Just as the iris controls the size of the pupil, ____control the shape of the lens.?
a. ?sclera b. ?cornea c. ?vision strands d. ?ciliary muscles