Changes in selective attention that occur during the cocktail party effect could involve changes in the ______.
A. permeability of sodium ions in outer hair cells
B. permeability of potassium ions in inner hair cells
C. outer hair cells increasing sensitivity to particular frequency ranges
D. inner hair cells increasing sensitivity to particular frequency ranges
Answer: C
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a. in reality, parents buy boys and girls the same kinds of toys. b. parents tend to assign outdoor tasks to boys and domestic tasks to girls. c. parents are particularly likely to discourage gender-inappropriate behavior in their daughters, rather than their sons. d. aside from stereotyped toy preferences, parents pay little attention to their children's gender-typed activities.
Research on Tourette's syndrome, a neurological disorder, has shown that it is most
closely related to a. antisocial personality disorder. b. phobic disorder. c. hypochondriasis. d. obsessive-compulsive disorder. e. schizophrenia.
What is one issue that is not assessed by Piaget's pendulum problem?
A) Whether or not the subject can isolate the independent effects of variables. B) The ability to plan and test a theoretical framework. C) The ability to consider the effects of one variable on another. D) Conservation problems.
If a researcher wants to know whether people who score high on extraversion also score high on activity level, the researcher should use the ________ method.
A. case study B. experimental C. correlational D. ANOVA