You might be doing your homework for this class when your roommate comes in and tells you a story. You realize a few minutes into the story that you haven’t heard anything she said. You had been using ______ to do your homework.

a. conservation
b. selective attention
c. language
d. divided attention


Ans: b

Psychology

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The core concepts of humanistic therapy, such as meaning and self-actualization, are

A) well correlated in the literature. B) difficult to measure and falsify. C) more effective than no treatment. D) less effective than psychoanalysis.

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A) when they turned 18. B) when they turned 21. C) about the time they got their first full-time job. D) when they reached their late twenties and early thirties.

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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