Which of the following is controlled by the autonomic nervous system?
a. respiration
b. reasoning
c. reading
d. reaching
e. running
a. Respiration
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Regarding the brains of people with schizophrenia, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. MRIs on schizophrenic brains show the brain regions crucial for regulating motivation, emotion, perception, actions, and attention to be abnormal. b. On PET scans, the activity tends to be abnormally low in the frontal lobes of the schizophrenic brain. c. CT scans show tightly-packed narrow surface fissuring of the schizophrenic brain. d. MRIs show that schizophrenic brains tend to have enlarged ventricles.
The __________ technique encourages compliance by offering an attractive deal, only to change the terms of the deal at a later time
a. foot-in-the-door b. door-in-the-face c. bait-and-switch d. lowball
Adoption studies tend to study mothers more often than fathers because
a. mothers tend to have a stronger genetic influence on their children than fathers do. b. mothers tend to have a stronger environmental influence on their children than fathers do. c. fathers generally have less genetic and environmental influence on their children's development than mothers do. d. it is harder to get information about the fathers than about the mothers.
In an experiment, a group of participants ate ice cream that was packaged in a red carton and another group of participants ate ice cream of the same flavor packaged in a green carton. Participants were asked to rate the ice cream on a scale of 1 to 5. In this scenario, the independent variable is the
A. gender of the participants. B. participants' ratings. C. flavor of the ice cream. D. color of the carton.