Learning, in a PDP model, consists of:
A) the acquisition of connection strengths
B) the clustering of concepts into meaningful sets
C) the acquisition of items which have rules which govern their semantic space
D) the acquisition of information located in specific regions of the brain
E) excitation of specific regions of the brain
A
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a. Clara will experience more cognitive dissonance than Joyce. b. Joyce will experience less social facilitation than Clara. c. Clara will have a more enduring attitude toward the software than Joyce. d. Joyce will have a more enduring attitude toward the software than Clara.
One-year-old Mathieu is afraid of the dog because he saw his father react with fear to the same dog. Which term BEST explains why Mathieu is afraid?
a. stranger wariness b. avoidant attachment c. complex emotions d. social referencing
Yoriko, a 17-year-old girl, is so fearful of gaining weight that she starves herself. She has missed five consecutive menstrual cycles. Although she correctly sees herself as having a skeletal figure, she does not think she has an eating disorder. Yoriko is diagnosed with anorexia. What is unusual about this case?
a. It is unusual for an anorexic to deny having an eating disorder. b. It is unusual for a 17-year-old girl to have anorexia. c. It is unusual for an anorexic to miss five menstrual cycles. d. It is unusual for an anorexic to have an accurate body image.
Your textbook states that phonemic restoration is a kind of illusion. This statement is true because
a. we think that we hear boundaries between words, even when a physical boundary does not really exist. b. we think that we are accurate when we replace a missing phoneme, but we typically make many errors. c. we make too much use of bottom-up processing. d. we think that we hear a speech sound, even if it is not present in the distal stimulus.