If you are focusing on watching a movie you can be completely oblivious to your boyfriend, who just walked in and sat down on a chair beside you. This occurs because of:
A. change blindness.
B. monocular blindness.
C. inattentional blindness.
D. color blindness.
E. insight blindness.
C. inattentional blindness.
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Research on acquaintance rape indicates that
a. approximately 50% of women will experience acquaintance rape or some other form of sexual assault from an acquaintance, during their lifetime. b. the majority of women who have been assaulted by an acquaintance—and whose experience meets the legal definition of rape—classify the experience as rape. c. most claims of acquaintance rape are made by women who willingly had sex, but then regretted it later. d. although acquaintance rape was relatively common in earlier decades, media attention to this problem has substantially decreased its incidence.
What brought the study of child development into the academic mainstream and made developmental psychology a first-level discipline within university psychology programs in the mid-19th century?
a. the practical application of developmental research b. the increasing scientific rigor practiced in developmental research c. advances in communication between U.S. and European researchers d. the collaboration of psychologists with scientists in other fields of study
Evidence suggests that tension-type headache onset, a skeletal muscle condition, is related to ____ stressors and migraine headache, a neurovascular condition, to ____ stressors. a. abaxial, axial c. proximal, distal b. distal, proximal d. rostal, caudal
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Which statement about basic emotions is true?
A) Infants come into the world with the ability to clearly express basic emotions. B) Newborns’ emotional expressions closely resemble those of older children and adults. C) Babies’ earliest emotional life consists of attraction to pleasant and withdrawal from unpleasant stimulation. D) Babies are born with well-organized and specific emotional expressions for happiness and fear.