Regarding cultural differences in how children learn to attend to objects and events, some have proposed that East Asians
a. are socialized to focus their attention on key features of objects.
b. are socialized to divide their attention between objects and events in their environments.
c. have analytic styles of reasoning.
d. tend to focus on differences between objects.
B
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According to Carol Gilligan (1982), women score lower on Kohlberg's stages of moral development because
a. women have been socialized to make judgments based upon logic. b. women have been socialized to make judgments based upon the needs of others. c. women are inherently less moral than men. d. the hormones that are more present in women lead them to be more caring of others.
According to the research on mental sets,
a. mental set is an overreliance on bottom-up processing. b. mental set is especially helpful when you are trying to solve a problem creatively. c. people may produce inferior problem solutions if they are shown examples of possible solutions before they try to solve the problem. d. mental sets neither help nor hinder problem solving.
Imagine that you have gone to the garden to pick a rose. Unfortunately, when reaching for a flower, your thumb encounters a thorn and you jerk your hand away. What is the order in which information is communicated,
from the time of the prick through withdrawal of your hand and realization of pain? a. sensory neuron, brain, interneuron, motor neuron b. sensory neuron, interneuron, motor neuron, brain c. motor neuron, interneuron, brain, sensory neuron d. brain, interneuron, sensory neuron, motor neuron
Haier and his associates found that the brains of people who perform well on mental tests consume less energy than those who perform poorly on these tests
Indicate whether this statement is true or false