Which of the following is most closely associated with Treisman's attenuation theory of selective attention?
a. Late selection
b. Stroop experiments
c. Precueing
d. Dictionary unit
d
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a. face b. concurrent c. predictive d. convergent
A child climbs on a chair in order to get over a gate that her parents use to keep her in the living room and away from dangerous objects in the kitchen. The next day the child does this again, and next week, once again
How would Thorndike describe the scene that was just described? a) The child is being reinforced via positive reinforcers. b) Getting over the gate is a reinforcer, which follows the law of effect. c) The child most likely saw a pet engage in a similar activity and matched the behavior. d) This is most likely an example of insight learning as the child suddenly realized that the chair was like a ladder.
According to David Barash, humans possess an innate ____ that structures their social behavior.?
a. ?schema b. ?instinctual drift c. ?biogrammar d. ?engram
A gene whose influence will be expressed each time the gene is present is known as a __________
a. recessive gene b. dominant gene c. polygenic gene d. sex-linked gene