"Human beings do not demonstrate _____," said Professor Spiegelman. "Otherwise, most newborns would think that the physician who was handling the childbirth was its mother or father!"
A) plasticity B) reflexes
C) instincts D) imprinting
D
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Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
Your text describes in some detail a study by Gastil in which participants reported the mental images evoked by sentences. This research found that
a. males reported more male images than female images when responding to sentences containing he, but females showed no pronoun effect. b. females reported more male images for the he sentences than males did. c. both males and females reported an equal number of male and female images when responding to sentences containing they. d. masculine generic terms produced more thoughts about males than did gender-neutral terms.
Traditional psychoanalysis can be objectively criticized as
a. requiring large amounts of time and money. b. effective only in treating psychosis. c. being ineffective for a majority of its patients. d. placing too much responsibility on the client.
Dr Cowell conducts a study of reading speed. This is accomplished by measuring the rate at which participants' eyes move when reading a book section. His results find that their eyes move faster when reading familiar words, but that they slow down when reading unfamiliar words. This provides evidence that the process of reading is based
A. only on top-down processing. B. both on top-down and bottom-up processing. C. only on bottom-up processing. D. on neither top-down nor bottom-up processing.