When conducting an experiment on how stimuli are represented by the firing of neurons, you notice that neurons respond differently to different faces. For example, Arthur's face causes three neurons to fire, with neuron 1 responding the most and neuron 3 responding the least. Roger's face causes three different neurons to fire, with neuron 7 responding the least and neuron 9 responding the most
Your results support coding.
a. specificity
b. distributed
c. sparse
d. divergence
c
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Describe the role of random assignment to groups in isolation of causal variables.
What will be an ideal response?
Research on schizophrenia has found that:
a. infections appear to trigger immune responses that are protective and decrease the risk of schizophrenia. b. if one fraternal twin has schizophrenia, there is an 80% chance the other twin will have schizophrenia as well. c. women who have the flu during pregnancy are more likely to give birth to babies who will develop schizophrenia. d. two specific genes serve as markers for schizophrenia and can accurately predict the likelihood an individual will develop schizophrenia.
Stressful events in adulthood may be especially important among schizophrenic people who experienced
A. changes to their diets. B. adverse events in childhood. C. recent happiness and calmness. D. calmness and happiness in childhood that no longer feels possible.
The technique of stress inoculation involves
a. practicing a monologue of internal positive coping statements. b. submitting people to stressful situations until they are exhausted. c. the use of sensory deprivation to induce a trance-like state of consciousness. d. medically-administered ingestion of hormone-reducing drugs.