Scientific Method- OPTIC
What will be an ideal response?
observation- develop a question
prediction- develop a hypothesis
test- design study & collect data
interpret- analyze data
communicate-publish findings
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Sarah has not seen her uncle in three years. She is shocked when she finally does see him at a Thanksgiving dinner she is hosting because he is so changed. He has lost a lot of teeth and looks about 20 years older. He seems anxious and depressed, even paranoid. She is further upset when she realizes he has stolen a large amount of cash from her dresser. Sarah suspects he has a substance use
disorder. Use of what substance would most likely cause all of what Sarah has observed? a. Methamphetamine b. Cocaine c. Ecstasy d. Marijuana
After conducting repeated experiments in which he first trained rats to navigate a maze and then removed tiny sections of their brains to see if that brain region eliminated learning, Lashley reported that:
A) learning the maze could be erased by removing a tiny section of Broca's area. B) the memory of the maze was localized in the right hemisphere of the brain. C) the memory of the maze was localized in the left hemisphere of the brain. D) no one brain region seemed to uniquely and reliably eliminate maze learning.
People are NOT capable of thinking hypothetically EXCEPT during the __________
period. a. formal operational b. concrete operational c. preoperational d. sensorimotor e. post-operational
Why should control information be in the environment rather than in the user's
head? (a) because of limitations on working and long-term memory (b) because we have been conditioned to respond to stimuli, not to ideas (c) because we have been conditioned to respond to stimuli in the environment, and (d) because schemas are ultimately in the environment (e) all of the above