Encouraging children to think of alternatives to conventional wisdom fosters creativity
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
True
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Amy has lost her senses of sight, hearing, and touch. Her symptoms are found to be caused by pressure applied to the brain by a tumor. Where is the tumor likely to be found?
a. cerebrum b. amygdale c. thalamus d. medial forebrain bundle
Ron is an avid reader. He has a large vocabulary because every time he comes across a word he doesn't know, he looks it up in the dictionary. Ron encounters "wanderlust" in a novel, reaches for the dictionary, and finds out this word means "desire to travel." The process of looking up unfamiliar words increases Ron's
a. lexicon. b. parser. c. syntactical capacity. d. mental set.
If you like to study while watching television or instant messaging, beware because dividing your attention like that often leads to forgetting due to
a. disuse. b. memory decay. c. encoding failure. d. redintegration.
According to the textbook, the second rule of critical thinking is to:
A) be sceptical of everything. B) only trust what you observe. C) consider what you don't see. D) believe information published in scientific journals.