When your friend is feeling very stressed about an upcoming exam, you are most likely to correctly assess her feelings when you
a. are discussing the matter in less-stressful settings, like a party, which gives you enough distance to feel objective.
b. pay more attention to what she is saying than to her facial expressions
c. are able to feel confident about your own upcoming exams.
d. feel the same level of stress about your own upcoming exams.
d
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What are five good parenting practices discussed in the text that research has shown are associated positively with children's social and emotional development?
What will be an ideal response?
____ is a neurotransmitter that participates in movement, planning, and reward
a. Serotonin b. Acetylcholine c. Dopamine d. Glutamate
Perceiving machines are used by the U.S. Postal Service to "read" the addresses on letters and sort them quickly to their correct destinations. Sometimes, these machines cannot read an address because the writing on the envelope is not sufficiently clear for the machine to match the writing to an example it has stored in memory. Human postal workers are much more successful at reading unclear addresses, most likely because of
A. bottom-up processing. B. top-down processing. C. their in-depth understanding of principles of perception. D. repeated practice at the task.
"I really can't believe how good my children are with technology," Jason says to his colleague Jesse
"They are only 4 and 6 years old, and they are both better at using my iPad than I am!" Jesse nods and says, "That is because they are ________, which means that they have grown up in the age of that sort of technology!" a) webheads b) computer junkies c) e-students d) digital natives